Deep Denial: The Persistence of White Supremacy in United States History and Life

Deep Denial explains why race is still with us, and what the Civil Rights Movement can tell us about today.

Part I takes a broad historical view, from seventeenth century Virginia through World War II., examining the origins of white supremacy as a structural feature of US society and describing its evolution over time.

Part II features the Civil Rights Movement, how it emerged in the post-WWII era, how the struggle was waged in the 1950s and '60s, and how it subsequently devolved from a vibrant community-led, issue-based movement to a bureaucratic, government-sponsored, needs-based nonprofit industry that remains with us today.

Each chapter begins with an intimate and unsparingly personal account from the author's own life. After drawing the reader into his topic, he lays out the historical facts, while still retaining the master storyteller's sense of engagement with the reader.

Author: David Billings
Publisher: Crandall, Dostie & Douglass Books, Inc.
Published: 10/07/2016
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d
ISBN: 9781934390047

About the Author
Billings, David: - "David Billings, a white man who has spent half a century working for racial justice, was born in McComb, Mississippi - the site of some of the fiercest struggles of the Civil Rights Movement - and later grew up in Helena, Arkansas. His family rubbed shoulders with the KKK yet never succumbed to the hatred that surrounded them. Since 1983 he has been a trainer and organizer with the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond, a New Orleans-based group led by people of color and the premier anti-racism training group in the country. Rev. Billings is an ordained United Methodist minister. He also is an historian with a special interest in the history of race and racism. Billings' organizing work has been cited for many awards including the Westchester County chapter of the National Association of Social Workers "Public Citizen of the Year," the New Orleans Pax Christi "Bread and Roses" award; the Loyola University of New Orleans "Homeless and Hunger Award"; the 2010 Martin Luther King Social Justice Award from the New Orleans Jazz Foundation; and the National Alliance against Racist Oppression's Angela Davis Award for community service. He was the Whitney Young 2006 lecturer at the Westchester County NASW symposium. David Billings has a B.A. from the University of Mississippi, a Masters of Divinity degree from New York Theological Seminary, and a Doctor of Ministry (ABD) from the University of Creation Spirituality (now Wisdom University). He is married to Margery Freeman and has three children, Nathan and Noah Shroyer, and Stella Billings, and six grandchildren, Jonathan, Abigail, Isaiah, Sofia, Twain, and Whipple Ann. David and Margery currently live in McComb, Mississippi. Since 1983 Billings has trained tens of thousands of people, of all races. Often when doing a workshop, people would ask him about "his book." Given the scope of his knowledge and his skill as a master storyteller people just assumed he had written one, but he was always too busy. Now, semi-retired, he has. Deep Denial is the book so many have been waiting for."

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