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Title: Two Nations : Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal by Andrew Hacker ISBN: 0743238249 Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Paper) Pub. Date: 19 May, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.58
Rating: 4
Summary: Hacker uses brilliant prose to animate statistics.
Comment: While Hacker uses statistics to illustrate the divide between black and white America, his book is anything but dry. Furthermore, while Hacker is an academic, he avoids the text book type of writing that many academics are known for. Two Nations is interesting, provocative and should be required reading in any class that attempts to address the problems of race in America. Although Hacker's book doesn't provide any solutions, he doesn't proport to. He is truly the foremost writer on race in America. Read Two Nations and find out why.
Rating: 4
Summary: well written and coherent, but flawed nonetheless
Comment: In Two Nations, Hacker does and excellent job in documenting the statistical inequalities between blacks and whites. Such a good job, in fact, that Hacker considers his impressive array of numbers to be, in and of themselves, evidence of injustice. Only peripherally does Hacker contemplate the effects that various cultures and subcultures may have on, among other things, black earning potential. He usually discredits such considerations by attempting to "hold various factors contstant" and then to arbitrarily attribute the residual difference to racism. Since racism is much less apparent today than in, say, 1950, much reference is made to the concept of "institutional racism" - a nonsense term that divorces racism from deliberate intent and instead alledges the subtle workings of unfriendly ghosts. Yet again, Hacker does little to reconcile his argument with the various evolved cultures and sub-cultures within the black community. It becomes, ultimately, a polemic designed to cast black Americans as victims of a hidden racism that acts through the institutions of society to thwart their aspirations. Whether its culturally biased exams, white middle-class norms, racist police officers, racist "vigilantes" such a Bernhard Goetz, racist corporate America, racist cab-drivers, racist store owners, or racist schools, his inability to hold black Americans in any way responsible for their circumstances serves the function of corrective epicycles to preserve his edifice of cultural relativism and to retain his faith in black capacity. This can be exemplified most clearly at the end of the book: In raising the question as to "why so many black Americans are enguaged in what seems to be a self-inflicted genocide?", he provides a very predictable answer: "It is white America that has made black such a disconsolate estate."
Rating: 2
Summary: This this book was sometimes interesting but
Comment: the plethora of percentages and numbers weigh it down. The views of the author were one sided and sometimes a little biased agaisnt the majority. This is a small quibble and does not really take away from the main message the author is trying to convey. This book is, however, quite an eye opener especially for those who believe that in this country all men are created equal. This book proves that it simply isn't so.
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Title: Money: Who Has How Much and Why by Andrew Hacker ISBN: 0684846624 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism by Derrick A. Bell ISBN: 0465068146 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: August, 1993 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: White Lies: Race, Class, Gender & Sexuality in White Supremacist Discourse by Jessie Daniels ISBN: 0415912903 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: White Racism: The Basics by Joe R. Feagin, Hernan Vera, Pinar Batur ISBN: 0415924618 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Mismatch : The Growing Gulf Between Women and Men by Andrew Hacker ISBN: 0684862522 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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