Looking Over
Black Shoulders
Dr. Adam L. Perkins
History is a narrative shaped by power — but what happens when the scales are completely flipped?
An immersive literary gateway into a stark alternate reality. A total, uncompromising role reversal of the Civil Rights movement.
What if the roles were reversed?
Published in 2008 and relaunching for a new generation, Looking Over Black Shoulders dares to ask the unthinkable: What if African-Americans had been the dominant power in America 150 years ago — and whites were the enslaved? Through a stunning pictorial journey, Adam L. Perkins turns history on its head to illuminate the real roots of America's race relations.
Bold. Provocative. Necessary.
[ THE LOBS EXPERIENCE ]
Welcome to the LOBS Experience.
History is a narrative shaped by power — but what happens when the scales are completely flipped?
Inspired by the provocative 2008 book Looking Over Black Shoulders, this platform is an immersive literary gateway into a stark alternate reality. We are stepping directly into a total, uncompromising role reversal of the Civil Rights movement. In this timeline, the social hierarchy is inverted: People of color hold absolute institutional authority, wielding the proverbial whip, while white individuals occupy the subservient role, living under the weight of systemic oppression.
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The Black Enforcer
DOMINANT CLASS · POWER ALIGNMENT
◻ STANDBY — PRESS TO ENGAGEThe White Subjected
SUBSERVIENT CLASS · SURVIVAL ALIGNMENT
◻ STANDBY — PRESS TO ENGAGE"It doesn't matter who holds the whip and who receives the lashing — the core problems remain the same."
— Brenton Butler, Author
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What Readers Are Saying
Consistently well-developed, Looking Over Black Shoulders is a searing work of historical imagination and perspective that succeeds in turning America on its head. Not since John Howard Griffin's Black Like Me has a writer so captured the essence of American race relations.
Tom Layne
Author of The Assassination of Rush Limbaugh
A fascinating and provocative eye-opener that produces a vertigo-inducing perspective on race relations in the United States — and that in the end, admirably demonstrates that it doesn't matter who holds the whip and who receives the lashing, the core problems remain the same.
Brenton Butler
Author of They Said It Was Murder
A counterfactual rollercoaster ride. Adam Perkins' topsy-turvy world tackles the issue of race relations in a bold new way. This speculative history of an alternate America is a brilliantly clever way of exploring race relations with children, as well as adults.
Edward M. Brittingham (Capt., USN Ret.)
Author of The Iranian Deception
A very interesting and thought provoking premise of healing bigotry among whites and blacks in America. A very witty and funny book at times though the subject matter is very serious.
Steven Bock
Guitarist
This is the definitive book for our generation on race relations. Perkins has captured in words and pictures the 'Jim Crow' era in reverse and has given viable solutions for healing on both sides!
George Evans
A lover of books and people
This book is the answer that we have been waiting for in discussing race in America. Trust me, there's nothing like this book anywhere! White and Black Americans cannot afford not to have this book. For me, seeing racism from this perspective has changed my life for the better. I expect this book to make it on Oprah. Buy it! It's worth more!!!
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