The White Peril

Name: The White Peril
Brand: RANDOM HOUSE US
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A Family Memoir

By: Omo Moses

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Hardcover | 21 January 2025

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From the son of legendary civil rights organizer Robert P. Moses- a brilliant, unflinching memoir about becoming Black in America that interweaves voices from 3 generations of the Moses family

From the son of legendary civil rights organizer Robert P. Moses- a brilliant, unflinching memoir about becoming Black in America that interweaves voices from 3 generations of the Moses family

In The White Peril, Omo Moses deftly interweaves his own life story with excerpts from both his great-grandfather's sermons and the writings of his father, the civil rights activist Bob Moses. The result is a powerful chorus of voices that spans 3 generations of an African American family, all shining a light on the Black experience, all calling fiercely for racial justice.

Omo was born in 1972 in Tanzania, where his parents had fled to escape targeted harassment by the US government. He did not encounter white supremacy until the family moved back to America when he was 4. Here, he learned what it meant to be Black. He came of age in a Black enclave of Cambridge, Massachusetts, became a passionate basketball player, lived in the shadow of his father's Civil Rights work but did not feel like a part of it until his college basketball career came to an unceremonious end. Unsure what to do next, he took up his father's offer to go with him to Mississippi and teach math to Algebra Project students. Omo didn't know it yet, but it was among those young people that he would find his purpose.

This book is at once a coming-of-age story, a multigenerational family memoir, an epic father-son road trip, a searing account of the Black male experience, and a work that powerfully revives Rev. Moses's demand for liberation.

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