Eldridge Cleaver
Paperback | Pages: 242 pages Rating: 3.98 | 13050 Users | 322 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Soul On Ice |
| ISBN: | 038533379X (ISBN13: 9780385333795) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldridge_Cleaver |
| Setting: | United States of America |
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The now-classic memoir that shocked, outraged, and ultimately changed the way America looked at the civil rights movement and the black experience.By turns shocking and lyrical, unblinking and raw, the searingly honest memoirs of Eldridge Cleaver are a testament to his unique place in American history. Cleaver writes in Soul on Ice, "I'm perfectly aware that I'm in prison, that I'm a Negro, that I've been a rapist, and that I have a Higher Uneducation." What Cleaver shows us, on the pages of this now classic autobiography, is how much he was a man.
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| Title | : | Soul on Ice |
| Author | : | Eldridge Cleaver |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 242 pages |
| Published | : | January 12th 1999 by Delta (first published 1968) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Biography. History. Autobiography. Memoir. Cultural. African American. Politics |
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Ratings: 3.98 From 13050 Users | 322 ReviewsCriticize Of Books Soul on Ice
Step Two in my attempts to not be a racial invalid. This book, which if I remember correctly was mostly written in prison from a rape conviction, does not do much to promote the "we're really all the same" attitude; in my naivety, I was probably surprised to hear this coming from a black guy. It was undoubtedly also the first time I heard negative opinions of The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. from someone who wasn't a certified white supremacist. Mr. Cleaver makes no attempt to smoothI'm done. When I initially read this book forty some years ago as a chick still in high school I was naievly dazzled. Rereading it now I hoped to gain a perspective of the time it was written. Now it reads like the diatribe of an obsessed, bitter hater. I can certainly understand the validity of many of the points made in this book, but the seething vitriolic undercurrents take the whole thing down. Of course, I now have read information regarding the balance of the Eldridge Cleaver's life and
I really should give this revolting book this book five stars, instead of one, in recognition of the fact that it demonstrated what idiocy I am capable of. I belong in other words to the generation that read this book, recommended it highly to everyone for two years and spent the next forty years being highly embarrassed about having done so.Eldridge Cleaver was a serial rapist who said he enjoyed committing the act more with white women than black. He was also a homophobe and an advocate of
Incredible. Though some of the specifics of Eldridge Cleaver's ideology are a bit dated, his overall intellect shines through in this tome that shares uncomfortable truths about not only Western society, but modern society in general.The best part of this is the story of Cleaver himself. Was a criminal until he was sent to prison, and then he started to read, and read and read. Bang - all of a sudden he's writing critiques of Norman Mailer (Author), James Baldwin and more - and his words have an
Extraordinarily well-written in terms of hanging philosophical exposition on autobiography. If you had to say everything you wanted to say about what your life means in the context of the entire universe, can you say it in a way that a person would read, and could read and could understand? This is the question that faces every memoir writer, and this book is a tippy-top example of how to respond to that question. And most particularly this book has an excellent narrative on Responsibility, in
This book was really good. I loved it. At first, I didnt know what to expect as Im not accustomed to reading books where the book is a collection of essays or such. The last book I read like that was by James Baldwin. It was very refreshing, yet again initially I didnt know what to expect. This book was raw, but not too raw at the same time. A happy medium was provided in which Cleaver detailed many troubles and thoughts that plagued him and society alike during the civil rights era. I guess
I first read SOUL ON ICE over twenty five years ago. At the that point in my life, I understood very little of what Cleaver was really saying. The blistering anger came through, but, even a non-reader of SOUL ON ICE knows about that anger. And it was Cleaver's brilliant provocations fueled by his outrage and anger that first impressed me. And as a young white dude slowly building up my tolerance for white racial stress, I was ashamed at how quickly I rose to take on the challenge of those angry
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