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Title: It's the Little Things: The Everyday Interactions That Get under the Skin of Blacks and Whites by Lena Williams, Charlayne Hunter-Gault ISBN: 0-15-100407-2 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 29 September, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.61 (36 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Mediocre writing, but worthwhile topic
Comment: I can't improve on BG from MA's excellant review, so I'll just say that this book is not about all the races, as the subtitle would have you believe. It is exclusively about black versus white. The author shows the whites' point of view briefly and begrudgingly.
This could have been a much better book in the hands of another writer. As it is, it is still very interesting and enlightening -- I find myself watching my actions more closely.
If someone wrote similar books about Hispanics, Asians, and so on, I would like to read them.
Rating: 3
Summary: Skin deep, but relevant
Comment: I agree with a vast majority of reviewers that this book does have a tendency to not back up any sweeping statements with statestics or data (surprising coming from a sports writer!)HOWEVER, this book is not packaged or advertised as a tightly researched, sociological and theortical academic study of blacks and whites. It is an anecdotal book that has an unfortunate title of speaking for all blacks. It is a simply written book that does feel unfinished, but does touch on situations, scenerios, language, and "vibes" that are a touchy areas between blacks and whites. It may seem petty at times and bitter, but to see it as a primarily angry book seems to belittle the author, and makes me wary with such prejudice we all hold for women and for people of color to be unjustified or not thoroughly thought persons. She has justifiable reasons to be angry-and more importantly, she admits her shortcomings. I do not see anything worong her "token" chapter on white people and how they feel about the situation with black people because it is supposed to be a learning tool for white people to understand their actions and inactions do indeed matter with black people.
My main distaste with this book,(and moreover with her editor) is a point that another reviewer touched upon regarding that there are other races besides black and white that need to touched upon. Asian and Latino/Chicano/Hispanic and Native and South-Asian and non-european whites and Caribbean and so forth are totally ignored and dismissed in this book. At one point she states that HIspanics and Asains have it better because Blacks came as Slaves and therefore will always be the bottom of the heap-totally dismissing their lives, troubles, race experiences and so forth-now that is racist! Dismissing a race because they are not considred relevant, their voice nothing new, that they didn't come as slaves so therefore must have it just as good as white folks is ignorant and soured the message of this book. Perhaps there should be a book regarding how whites and blacks ignorance and dismissal of other races gets under their skin!
Rating: 1
Summary: This is Just Bad
Comment: I bought this book about a year ago and have yet to finish it to this day. I'm not an offended White person, I am an African American male who deals with issues of race everyday. I really wanted to like this book but it is just plain horrible. I can't believe that she writes for a newspaper. Her ideas are scattered and she doesn't really back up any of her claims. Some of the things in this book are true but they were just placed in the wrong chapter and just rambled off. She reminded me of a bad comedian who just jumps from subject to subject without ever finishing a joke.
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Title: Somebodies and Nobodies: Overcoming the Abuse of Rank by Robert W. Fuller ISBN: 086571486X Publisher: New Society Pub Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Brown: The Last Discovery of America by Richard Rodriguez ISBN: 0142000795 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: It's the Little Things: Everyday Interactions That Anger, Annoy, and Divide the Races by Lena Williams ISBN: 0156013487 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 07 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Where We Stand: Class Matters by Bell Hooks ISBN: 041592913X Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: All Our Families: New Policies for a New Century: A Report of the Berkeley Family Forum by Mary Ann Mason, Arlene Skolnick, Stephen D. Sugarman ISBN: 0195148819 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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