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BETWEEN THE WORLD AND US: A workingman contemplates the history, present, and future of racism and classism. Paperback – January 17, 2021

by Valeriano Diviacchi (Author)
3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
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This book was initially a workingman's response to the book "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates but also stands on its own as a personal and analytic contemplation of racism and classism. This third edition adds many more essays contemplating the nature and relationship of race and class, racism and classism. "An exceptionally well reasoned critique that is both thoughtful and thought-provoking, Between the World and Us: A Workingman's Response to 'Between the World and Me' is a rewarding and a challenging read that is very highly recommended." --- Midwest Book Review. This book as was Mr. Coates' book is written as an essay letter from a father to a son warning him about the temptation to use racism as a means of survival in life. It analyzes the Coates' book as being an example of modern day propaganda about racism that serves more to promote racism by its nonsense categories than to diminish it. This book goes on to argue that polemics on racism miss the true fight as being an economic struggle between working and ruling classes of society. This book argues further that for an individual not only to defeat the temptation to be a racist individually but to go on to establish a social normative basis to make it an evil requires a realization of existential Despair in life and then the will to overcome this Despair.
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    196 pages
  2. Language
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  3. Publication date
    January 17, 2021
  4. Dimensions
    6 x 0.45 x 9 inches
  5. ISBN-13
    979-8595958912
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From Kirkus Reviews"... An impressive cache of historical knowledge, ranging from Greco-Roman and military history to existential philosophy to modern scientific theory ..." "... an existentialist take for a working class audience ..."The Midwest Book Review"An exceptionally well reasoned critique that is both thoughtful and thought-provoking, 'Between the World and Us: A Workingman's Response to Between the World and Me' is a rewarding and a challenging read that is very highly recommended."

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08T5C3G44
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (January 17, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 196 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8595958912
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.45 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 13 ratings

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Valeriano Diviacchi

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The author was born in Yugoslavia in 1958. As part of the Italian Exodus of ethnic Italians escaping from communism across the border into Italy, he and his family eventually emigrated to the United States in 1963. As the first English literate member of his working class family, he was the first to graduate from high school, then served six years in the US Submarine Force, and then was the first to graduate from college at the University of Illinois at Chicago. After graduating from Harvard Law School, he practiced trial law as a solo trial attorney for 25 years and then graduated from NYU with a Masters in Interdisciplinary Studies. He is presently pursuing further graduate work in philosophy at Boston College.

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Sentinel3302
5.0 out of 5 stars A Profound and Timely Discussion of Classism and Racism
Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2021
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All nine of Diviacchi's books on philosophy are outstanding. Individually and together, they offer a profound and coherent point of view that far surpasses the pinched range of acceptable opinion in extensity, insight, coherence, and value. In this book, Diviacchi helpfully brings to bear his compelling alternative point of view on issues of class and race, chattel and wage slavery, old v. new classim and racism, immigration and Islam, even "cosmic" justice.
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GIOVANNI DIVIACCHI
5.0 out of 5 stars Hope disguised as Despair
Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2016
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For everything that "Between the World and Me" wasn't, the Workingman's Response in "Between the World and Us" is one of Hope, disguised as Despair, through the written words of a workingman's father to his son. Peter's letter to his son challenged my notions of race and gave me a new perspective on class struggle. Class here being the intangible conflict between working and ruling classes, and the tangible struggle to become a good student of history.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Book reads like a long, angry rant.
Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2022
From the very start, the author seemed like an angry person complaining about someone else’s book. Without even getting too far into the book, the author was already undermining and belittling the experience of racism a man had growing up black…as if he could ever relate. If you’re looking for a book in which an older caucasian male scolds a black man on his own experiences with racism (and doubts those experiences), this might be the book for you. If not, don’t waste your time or energy.
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EarlRandy
1.0 out of 5 stars More of a zero than 1 star ...
Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2019
Remember in the heyday of Hip Hop when a great record would spawn many imitators, most of which were far inferior to the original great album? Remember how "Roxanne Roxanne" spawned at least a dozen responses, and eleven of them were the equivalent of comparing a Da Vinci to a kindergartner's picture. Well, this book is the incompetent child's version of Ta-Nehisi Coates' brilliant Between The World And Me. Only a parent could prefer this to its obviously greater inspiration.
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Philip Hogan
5.0 out of 5 stars Deserves more stars.
Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2019
Good introduction to They Hate if You're Clever and Depise a Fool. Together with his other works, Diviacchi presents a systematic moral and political
philosophy. It is timely and provocative in light of identity and the politics of division.
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Michael Rectenwald
5.0 out of 5 stars My former student
Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2019
Brilliant book.
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Giuseppe Madre
5.0 out of 5 stars I do not consider this a flaw but an incentive to actually read and study further history --- which I love doing anyway
Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2015
A courageous critique of a currently very politically correct book showing all of its fallacies. Further, unlike the Coates book, it gives normative solutions for racism and the social and individual problems it causes instead of simply accepting them as dogma. The book's one problem is that it assumes a sophisticated level of education and historical knowledge by the reader or at least the reader's willingness to research the history its substance relies upon. I do not consider this a flaw but an incentive to actually read and study further history --- which I love doing anyway.
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Grisha
1.0 out of 5 stars Man I'd hate to be this guy's son...
Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2019
That's all I really want to say about this book.
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