Lost Tribes and Promised Lands

The Origins of American Racism

By: Ronald Sanders

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 19 hrs and 46 mins

Publisher's summary

UPDATE: This audiobook has been re-edited in response to listener feedback.

THE COMPLETE ORIGINAL EDITION: An utterly revelatory work. Unprecedented in scope, detail, and ambition.

In Lost Tribes and Promised Lands, celebrated historian and cultural critic Ronald Sanders offers a compelling and ideology-shattering history of racial prejudice and myth as shaped by political, religious, and economic forces from the 14th Century to the present day. Written with clear-eyed vigor, Sanders draws on a broad history of art, psychology, politics, and religion to inform his striking and soundly reasoned assertions.

Lost Tribes and Promised Lands nimbly zig-zags through space and time, doggedly chipping away at the myopic history of discovery and righteous conquest that has been reiterated for decades by the same ideological forces responsible for centuries of mythological prejudice and racial strife. Placing 14th Century Spanish intolerance (specifically anti-Semitism) as the origins of American racism toward African and Native Americans, Sanders elegantly weaves complex threads of colonial economics, religious exceptionalism, and xenophobia into a heady and often-infuriating thesis on the history of racism.

Finally in audio as a complete and cost-accessible edition (when the book was out of print, demand for this important work was so intense that used copies sold for thousands of dollars). Find out why! Lost Tribes and Promised Lands is a gripping and hegemony-exploding treatise on the history of race in the New World. This audio edition is skillfully read by Karen Chilton, award-winning narrator of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow.

©1978 Ronald Sanders (P)2020 Echo Point Books & Media, LLC

2nd grader edited this

While the story was at times interesting, it seemed more of a mushed up bunch of stories read by a totally incompetent performance hindered by terrible editing! Pretty much 15 hours of tormenting listening. Don’t waist a credit!!

Great Audiobook - Chapter 3 is Complete

I guess they must have fixed chapter 3 because it was not cut off when I listened. Fascinating book.

The same telling of history.

A bit more romantic but all in all it's the same world history you learned in school. If you loved it, you still will. If it repulsed you, it still will. It's a Euro American perspective of the story. And it's very nicely told other than that it's nothing new.