Under the Knife: How a Wealthy Negro Surgeon Wielded Power in the Jim Crow South - Hardcover
An African American journalist explores the success earned and power wielded by one of his ancestorsa surgeonin the Jim Crow South, concluding that the path to wealth required many moral compromises. Original.
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Just as he skillfully deconstructed the Black Panthers in his groundbreaking The Shadow of the Panther, Hugh Pearson presents in Under the Knife a familial tale of a different kind of black power that evades our most ingrained social clichés. Pearson's uncle, Dr. Joseph Griffin, lived in segregated Georgia and moved up the socioeconomic ladder by secretly performing abortions and treating the sexually transmitted diseases of the white folks in his community. When they couldn't pay up, the good doctor extorted property deals from them! He also hired down-and-out blacks as butlers and chauffeurs and was a pillar in the Negro community (in a Robin Hood fashion). Pearson blends fact with rural fiction as he shows how African Americans in the era before the civil rights movement were sometimes able to outsmart the bigoted whites who, in a cosmic twist of fate, depended on them when the chips were down. --Eugene Holley Jr.
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Hugh Pearson, author of The Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America, which was selected by The New York Times Book Review as a 1994 Notable Book of the Year, is also a former editorial page writer for the Wall Street Journal and columnist for the Village Voice. He also serves on the board of directors of the New York Civil Liberties Union and is a member of the Authors Guild. He lives with his family in New York City.
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- PublisherFree Press
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0684846519
- ISBN 13 9780684846514
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages256
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