Reviews for Long black song

The average rating for Long black song based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-02-09 00:00:00 Ray Kraus Pretty good literary theory text from Henry Louis Gates Jr. (most well-known these days for his many specials on PBS about history and genealogy). I'm not going to say it's an easy read, but it's a fun read in many respects and a nice look at some different figures in African-American literature and their relation to the wider world of American literature. The essays on Jean Toomer and Phillis Wheatley were very good, and his essay on Ishamel Reed's "Mumbo Jumbo" make me want to revisit it soon.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-06-23 00:00:00 James Clements A very impressive piece of scholarship, linking the murder of mentally and physically disabled people in Nazi Germany with the later mass murder of Jews and other victims in camps and gas chambers. The process of transporting the victims to centralized killing facilities, using ruses and lies to ensure a smooth process, selecting the victims before ushering them into the gas chamber, gassing them, plundering the corpses, and disposing the corpses is the same with "euthanasia" and the gassing of victims in death camps. As a result, Friedlander concludes correctly that the murder of the disabled needs to be classified as a part of the Holocaust.