Reviews

Collected Essays & Memoirs: The Omni-Americans / South to a Very Old Place / The Hero and the Blues / Stomping the Blues / The Blue Devils of Nada / From the Briarpatch File / Other Writings by Paul Devlin, Albert Murray, Henry Louis Gates Jr.

tinkerer's review

4.0

So far I have read the Omni-Americans, the reason I bought this book. Murray is consistently critical and optimistic at the same time about the role of reason in ending racism. I say "reason" because although he takes arts and humanities as a matter of course in cultural importance, and I'm guessing that the rest of the works in this collection focus on these, he basically wants to point out obfuscations and contradictions in media and education. Along with the concept of Omni-American, I liked his formulation of the 50-dimensional American. This is the goal.