Isbn: 9780060183516 - member of the club: reflections on life in a racially polarized world (11 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Fair. Informed and driven by his experience as an upper-middle-class African American who lives and works in a predominately white environment, provocative author Lawrence Otis Graham offers a unique perspective on the subject of race. An uncompromising work that will challenge the mindset of every reader, Member of the Club is a searching book of essays ranging from examining life as a black Princetonian and corporate lawyer to exploring life as a black busboy at an all white country-club. From New York magazine cover stories Invisible Man and Harlem on My Mind to such new essays as I Never Dated a White Girl and My Dinner with Mister Charlie: A Black Man's Undercover Guide to Dining with Dignity at Ten Top New York Restaurants, Graham challenges racial prejudice among White Americans while demanding greater accountability and self-determination from his peers in black America. In Member of the Club. [Graham writes of] heartbreaking ironies and contradictions, indignities and betrayals in the life of an upper-class black man. --Philadelphia Inquirer Lawrence Graham Surely knows about the pressures of being beholden to two very different groups. --Los Angeles Times Lawrence Otis Graham is a popular commentator on race and ethnicity. The author of ten other books, his work has appeared in New York magazine, the New York Times and The Best American Essays.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Informed and driven by his experience as an upper-middle-class African American who lives and works in a predominately white environment, provocative author Lawrence Otis Graham offers a unique perspective on the subject of race. An uncompromising work that will challenge the mindset of every reader, Member of the Club is a searching book of essays ranging from examining life as a black Princetonian and corporate lawyer to exploring life as a black busboy at an all white country-club. From New York magazine cover stories Invisible Man and Harlem on My Mind to such new essays as I Never Dated a White Girl and My Dinner with Mister Charlie: A Black Man's Undercover Guide to Dining with Dignity at Ten Top New York Restaurants, Graham challenges racial prejudice among White Americans while demanding greater accountability and self-determination from his peers in black America. In Member of the Club. [Graham writes of] heartbreaking ironies and contradictions, indignities and betrayals in the life of an upper-class black man. --Philadelphia Inquirer Lawrence Graham Surely knows about the pressures of being beholden to two very different groups. --Los Angeles Times Lawrence Otis Graham is a popular commentator on race and ethnicity. The author of ten other books, his work has appeared in New York magazine, the New York Times and The Best American Essays.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. xvii, 300, [1] pages. Index. Signed by author. Lawrence Otis Graham (born 1962) is an African-American attorney and New York Times best-selling author. Lawrence Otis Graham is a corporate and real estate attorney as well as a New York Times bestselling author of 14 non-fiction books on the subject of politics, education, race and class in America. His work has appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Reader's Digest, Glamour, U.S. News & World Report and Reader's Digest, where he has served as a contributing editor. His book Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class was a New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Essence Magazine bestseller, as well as a selection of the Book of the Month Club. Netflix is currently developing a series based on the book. Astute observer and ruminative author Lawrence Otis Graham continues his candid search for racial and ethnic understanding in essays with topics as diverse as life as a black Princetonian and Harvard-trained lawyer to the experience of being a black busboy at an all-white country club. Informed and propelled by his status as an upper-middle-class African American who lives in a predominately white environment, Graham offers a unique perspective on the subject of race. Reprint. First Edition [stated]. Third printing.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 24 cm. xvii, [1], 300, [2] pages. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. Inscribed and dated by the author on the title page. Lawrence Otis Graham (born 1962) is an African-American attorney and New York Times best-selling author. Lawrence Otis Graham is a corporate and real estate attorney as well as a New York Times bestselling author of 14 non-fiction books on the subject of politics, education, race and class in America. His work has appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Reader's Digest, U.S. News & World Report and Reader's Digest, where he has served as a contributing editor. His book Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class was a New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Essence Magazine bestseller, as well as a selection of the Book of the Month Club. Graham is also the author of Member of the Club which was originally a cover story on New York Magazine, and was later optioned for a feature film by Warner Brothers. Derived from a Kirkus review: A collection of essays that examines the complexities of being a black achiever in a society that often fails to look beyond skin color. He is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School. He has not managed to escape the stigma of being black in America. His experiences with racism, both subtle and overt, are recorded in 12 essays that range in tone from humorous to heartbreaking. Probably the most famous of these relates his week spent as a busboy at an all-white country club and the casual prejudice to which he was subjected. Other essays deal with his life as an undercover homeboy in Harlem and his culinary experiences in New York's ten most prestigious restaurants. Graham's encounters with racism generally leave him feeling more bemused than bitter. His thoughts on alternatives to affirmative action seem particularly timely. It may not solve the country's race problems, but this clear-eyed account should be required reading for all Americans. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Suzanne Noli (Jacket Design) (illustrator).…