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Title: Racist America: Roots, Current Realities and Future Reparations by Joe R. Feagin ISBN: 0-415-92532-0 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 30 September, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.09 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Courage to Tell It Like It Is
Comment: If you're a racist, you'll hate this book. If you're an equality-loving person of goodwill who wants to understand how and why racism operates in America, you'll find this book to be extremely valuable.
This is a bold, provocative, innovative, and insightful book. Professor Feagin walks us through the history of racism from its roots in Europe and colonial America to its current-day manifestations. He shows just how thoroughly racism has always permeated life in America since the anti-black views of America's Founding Fathers like Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and James Madison. Feagin also examines Reconstruction, the lynchings of the late-19th and early-20th centuries, the Jim Crow racism of the modern Civil Rights era, and the new "color-blind" racism of the post-Civil Rights period.
Professor Feagin lays bare the economic, ideological, and political structure of American racism. In so doing he develops an anti-racist theory rooted not only in the latest empirical data but also in the current reality of racism in the U.S.
This book is quite an eye-opener!
Rating: 3
Summary: Racist America
Comment: I gave this book three stars. My thoughts on this book were mixed.
What's good about it: It is definitely thought-provoking. To paint American history and current reality as flawless is very confused. It is very discouraging to see the realities in history, and even more so to see that these statements are at times applicable to myself.
What's bad about it: Feagin, in many places, gives inadequate documentation to support his statements. Frequently, the definitions of racially-connected terminology are not adequately defined. His comments on race and entertainment (music, movies, sports, TV, etc), are very contradictory. And at times, he unfairly smears people who disagree with his views, such as those who have objections to affirmative action. For example, he cites a GOP campaign ad focusing on a black rapist, and quotes from several white politicians. However, he doesn't account for other views.
His tactics of attacking people who oppose his views on what could solve racism are very confused, and at times vicious. He talks of affirmative action and reparations for slavery as though there could be no possible other solutions and actions against racism in general and discrimination in particular.
I have by no means thoroughly examined the contents of this book. I spent more time describing the negative aspects of the book than the positive, but I do not mean much by that.
Rating: 1
Summary: terrible racist ranting...
Comment: by feagin, super-racist. it never ceases to amaze me that when a black racist writes or speaks on his/her crazed views there is always some hippie (see guilty white suburban dwellers) publisher/station willing to give that person an outlet for their hate diatribe. skip this, try auto of malcolm x or dr. king instead. and for all you haters out there, i'm also black.
ask yourself, who elected these clowns as the black 'leadership'"
al sharpton: racist, does it for the attention
jesse jackson: 'reverend' who paid millions to hush up his secret lover, loves to yell 'racist' at anyone (companies, etc.) so that they will pay him money to go away
farrakhan: super hate-monger, rivals bin-laden, insane
real black role models in a perfect world:
condoleeza rice: beautiful intelligent black woman who also happens to run this country
colin powell: honored military veteran (a real hero), a real man, should have run for president (he would have won), also runs this country
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Title: Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva ISBN: 0742516334 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield (Non NBN) Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Many Costs of Racism by Joe R. Feagin, Karyn D. McKinney ISBN: 0742511170 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield (Non NBN) Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Upon these Shores: Themes in the African-American Experience 1600 to the Present by William R. Scott, William G. Shade, William H. Gray ISBN: 0415924073 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Let Them Eat Ketchup!: The Politics of Poverty and Inequality (Cornerstone Books) by Sheila D. Collins ISBN: 0853459053 Publisher: Monthly Review Press Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Racism : A Short History by George M. Fredrickson ISBN: 0691116520 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 02 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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