Time Echo

Literature & Fiction

Reiss, Philip

Genre Fiction

Xlibris, Corp.

Time Echo presents two college professors living in New Paltz, New York in 1968. Both experienced service in the Korean War as nineteen year olds and met at an anti-Vietnam War rally in 1967. Ed Matthews and Jake Schweyer analyze the politics of the &lsquo;Cold War&rsquo; and exchange views on the presidential politics of 1968. Initially, Ed has a penchant for loving and leaving women as a consequence of an unfaithful wife. Jake has only recently gotten over the loss of his fiancée, Pat, to ovarian cancer. Serving on a special committee, charged with evaluating &lsquo;Black Studies&rsquo; course proposals, Jake becomes romantically involved with its chairperson, Dr. Veronica Henderson, the first black faculty member at his college. A specific reality of 1967 casts an ominous shadow over their torrid romance. However, 1969 offers the possibility that they will respectively find future happiness.

AuthorHouse

Until Bayard Rustin's lecture in the fall of 1962, no other person had brought author Philip Reiss so far toward gaining an understanding of what it was like for African-Americans living as second-class citizens in this nation, which sponsors a pledge calling for "liberty and justice for all." The Rustin lecture became Reiss's point of departure on his quest to learn more fully of the African-American experience; it prompted him to become aware and to truly understand that the entire nation shared responsibility for the dilemma of deep-seated injustices that African-Americans constantly faced. In Blue Eyes on African-American History, Reiss provides an account of a white professor's learning and teaching about African-American history from 1970 to 1999 at a SUNY community college. Reiss includes specifics of how and why he took on the challenge of teaching African-American history and discusses the historical events he deems critical for understanding of that history. His study relates the impact of economic exploitation facilitated by racism and how these twin evils are central to the African-American historical narrative. Along with factual history, this volume intersperses some of Resiss's experiences as a young boy, as a young adult serving in the military, and as a professor teaching his course. It provides unique insight into a turbulent time in America.

Blue Eyes on African-American History: A Learning Adventure

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Archway Pub

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