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Title: The BAP Handbook : The Official Guide to the Black American Princess by Kalyn Johnson, Tracey Lewis, Karla Lightfoot, Ginger Wilson ISBN: 0-7679-0550-4 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 05 June, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.74 (61 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: I am so NOT a BAP
Comment: Having a)grown up on the West Coast and b)come from strictly working class parents, I **sniff** cannot claim BAP status. I've got a couple of BAP friends and one super BAP-py cousin, but that's it. I can't even claim Butterfly status. So since I'm so far removed from the world of Vineyard summers, cotillions, and Kate Spade (although I do buy MAC Chestnut lipliner religiously and repeatedly remind my children to remember their "home training"), it was hard for me to tell when this book was being tongue-in-cheek and when it was just plain out pretentious.
I can't recommend this book, but I wouldn't tell anyone to avoid it, either. It has it's funny moments, but I just could not relate. And I don't think any self-respecting "GDI" will relate, either. I do appreciate, however, the fact that there's a book out there that doesn't illustrate all Black folks as middle-class, under-educated, shouting in church on Sundays, homemade baby-naming clowns.
Rating: 5
Summary: Confessions of a Bougie BAP
Comment: This book is hilarious and it perfectly encapsualtes what it means to be a BAP in America. During my BAP upbringing, I was mocked by both black and white classmates. The black students were ten times meaner to me. Each time I walked by they chanted: white girl and they repeatedly told me how unattractive I was.
Both of my parents had MBAs and it was expected that I would do the following: excel at school, be well-mannered at all times, attend church functions, read 5 books outside of class a week, be knowledgeable about the fine arts and be the perfect hostess.
I don't understand why this book is causing such a fuss. Ten years ago, books about black folks took place in urban settings. I can't relate to growing up the 'hood, but it doesn't make the experiences of the inner city blacks any less valid than mine.
I feel sorry for those BAPS and nonBAPs who are unwilling to associate with someone from a different background. I think it would be helpful if a BAP and a nonBAP wrote a book together or hosted a radio show.
We are all in this together!
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Rating: 3
Summary: Cute but really sends the wrong messages sometimes
Comment: This is a cute and lively book, but I really think that it is going to send very wrong messages to young women who are not wise to the world yet. I was blown away by the superficiality in the section that discusses engagement rings. If a man proposes to a woman with a ring that is less than a carat, he's basically worthless. Ugh!!! How horrible is that? There are a lot of wonderful men out here who will make great husbands, despite the fact that they are not spending more than they can afford on a diamond! As a point of fact, a relative of mine went temporarily broke buying his fiancee a two-carat diamond--three years later? They're divorced because they can't stand each other. I'm 33, so I have been alive long enough to know that money and "things" are not everything. A 20-year old may not get that yet. These women who wrote this book need to be more careful about the messaages they put out--women need to go for the substance of a man, substance and not just material goods in their lives--these authors are creating a new breed of golddiggers.
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Title: The Divine Nine: The History of African American Fraternities and Sororities by Lawrence C., Jr. Ross ISBN: 0758202709 Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Beautylicious! : The Black Girl's Guide to the Fabulous Life by JENYNE M. RAINES ISBN: 0767911105 Publisher: Harlem Moon Pub. Date: 30 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: BLACK BOURGEOISIE by Franklin Frazier ISBN: 0684832410 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 13 February, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class by Lawrence Otis Graham ISBN: 0060984384 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: In Search of Sisterhood by Paula J. Giddings ISBN: 0688135099 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 29 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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