Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Soul on Ice
Book Review: soul on ice- 30 years later
Summary: 5 Stars
You Must read this book! It is an important Historical (1968) Document of life in america. Eldridge Cleaver holds nothing back from the reader & makes no excuses. This book is raw, uncensored, and will make you squirm. It will make you re-think your beliefs about racism, crime, sex, incarceration & humanity. amy,CT,USA,28.Book Review: standing in awe of my interest
Summary: 4 Stars
this book repulsed, angered, and offended me and yet i find myself wanting to read it again. i'm amazed by this book. though disdainful himself, cleaver was still an amazing writer who was daringly bold enough to unleash the esoteric wall of the ideologies of the Black man in the 60's.Book Review: the real deal from an educated black man
Summary: 5 Stars
racism is still alive and well in the USA, despite surface gains by some people of color. this book goes into a theory for black/white tensions: the primeval mitosis, when humanity split into male/female, black/white, etc. and our dichotimies became external rather than held within each human. eldridge has some very serious ideas about why our gender roles are lined up with "race," and how the Body and Mind have become province to certain ethnicities. to heal our world, all humans must become whole: Mind, Body merging instead of blacks being all Body "supermasculine menials" and whites being "omnipotentent administrators." eldridge's glance into inter-racial love are interesting, if not at times confusing since he fell in love with his own (white) lawyer. eldridge's writing is strong and his prose is evocative. i think the best essay in this book is the one on primeval motosis, where he lays out his theory on tensions between the races. but all of them are excellent, especially when cleaver examines the vietnam war and wars against colonionalism the world over and links colonial/liberation struggles to the struggle for equality in the US! deep stuff, seeing as how "liberation" has been "won" because all nations, no matter how squalid and repressed, have the honor of participating in capitalism (aka globalism). blacks and other oppressed people in the USA have also bought into the switcheroo. read cleaver and see that many of the issues happening in the late 60s have not been resolved.another thing i often found myself thinking: for a man who was incarcerated, and before the advent of the internet, cleaver must have put in so much effort to get the political/social information he did. even prison can not hold the mind/thoughts of someone who will reach out despite constraints.
Book Review: unique!
Summary: 4 Stars
a lot of original thought in this book which is always a great thing. i came very close to giving it 5 stars and would probably give it 4.5 if i could.