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Title: The Violence of Hate: Confronting Racism, Anti-Semitism, and Other Forms of Bigotry by Jack Levin ISBN: 0-205-32247-6 Publisher: Pearson Allyn & Bacon Pub. Date: 24 October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.60 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: I had to read this in a diversity class
Comment: I am taking a diversity class at my local community college called "Racial and Cultural Minorities".
"The Violence of Hate" is a mandatory book assignment and the teacher said he was going to give us extra credit if we'd write up a little critique about it. Since there's not much on the net about this, I figured I'd share it with the rest of you, too.
The book is written by Dr. Jack Levin, a professor of Sociology and Criminology. He's also director of the Brudnick Center on Conflict and Violence at Northeastern University in Boston.
Although boring at times, the book was educational. It gives the reader an overview of hate terminology and clarifies their meanings. It made me realize that even though I am not prejudiced, I was a "spectator"- much like the Germans who failed to act during the Nazi regime, I have also witnessed bigotry and failed to speak up against it.
It explains the psychological and economic advantages of bigotry with lots of statistics and book references. This was the part that I found most tedious.
There were some interesting parts to this book such as his personal recollections about appearing on the Jerry Springer show with three racist skinheads. Another story of a white woman who, several years before, was being treated for cancer in South Africa was fascinating. She had a reaction to chemotherapy which turned her skin dark, and she got a first hand experience of the cruelness of Apartheid.
I wish he had elaborated on his personal experiences a bit more.
At the end of the book is a list of Anti-Hate Websites.
I'm an Internet geek, so I found these to be helpful; especially since another extra credit assignment involved visiting one and writing a paper about it. It would have been more complete had he included a list of Hate websites as well. (I also visited a few of these as well and they were horrifying but ultimately more interesting.)
If history interests you, you might enjoy it a little bit more than I did. I did learn a little so I guess that's worth something. Ultimately, if it wasn't for the class, I don't think I would have ever read this.
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Title: Hate Crimes Revisited: America's War on Those Who Are Different by Jack Levin, Jack McDevitt ISBN: 0813339227 Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: 04 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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Title: Debating Diversity: Clashing Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in America by Ronald Takaki ISBN: 0195146514 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Strangers to These Shores: Race and Ethnic Relations in the United States (7th Edition) by Vincent N. Parrillo ISBN: 0205351298 Publisher: Pearson Allyn & Bacon Pub. Date: 30 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $89.00 |
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Title: Homicide: A Sociological Explanation by Leonard Beeghley ISBN: 0847694739 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield (Non NBN) Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Globalized Woman : Reports from a Future of Inequality by Christa Wichterich, Patrick Camiller ISBN: 1856497410 Publisher: Zed Books Pub. Date: 12 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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