Isbn: 9780345400550 - dark witness: when black people should be sacrificed (again) (11 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. …

Zustand: Very Good. Signed Copy . Very Good dust jacket. Inscribed by author on title page.

Zustand: VERY GOOD. First printing. A book of personal anecdotes, satirical commentary on American life, and analyses of headline-making news stories, which attacks the myths and stereotypes of racism head on - from the Bell Curve (in a chapter titled "Why are Black People So Stupid" in which he laments his son's perfect score on a math achievement test before addressing the racism behind such books), to the OJ Simpson story and much more. Index. ix, 334 pp. Very good in very good dust jacket (slight spine slant).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Light edgewear. Contents clean, bright and unmarked.

Hardcover. Zustand: Collectible-Very Good. You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of your imagination. . . . Yes, take it all around, there is quite a good deal of information in the book. I regret this very much; but really it could not be helped.' --Mark Twain Like his literary forebears--Frederick Douglass, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, and yes, Mark Twain--Ralph Wiley has some information to purvey. The news is not always good. But with Wiley's electrifying take on subjects from the black intelligentsia to The Bell Curve to O.J., Dark Witness is certain to outrage, entertain, and ultimately enlighten. The titles of his chapters say it all: 'One Day, When I Was On Exhibit.' 'Why Black People Are So Stupid.' 'Why Niggers Steal, Are Violent, and Stay on Welfare.' 'Where Negroes Got All That Rhythm.' 'Whoopi-Do and Hughes 2.' 'Sin and Juice.' Behind the explosive flash of these phrases simmer the intense honesty and searing self-reflection of a man burning for justice. Taking to heart Douglass's words that 'it is not light that is needed, but fire.not the gentle shower, but thunder,' Wiley, heir to the long tradition of 'writer as activist,' examines some of the most hotly debated issues of black life today and turns them inside out: Affirmative action: 'Many times, it seemed the 'worst' black candidates were chosen in hopes that they would fail. People talked about increased productivity, but often they meant in the personal sense. When others succeeded or produced, they felt lessened--it is human nature to feel this, but for a 'white' man to feel inferior to a 'black' in America causes instant insanity.' O.J. Simpson: 'Now I've heard it said that The Juice, owing to his choices in women and habitat, wanted to be 'white.' A bigger crock of crap I've never heard. Juice made 'whites' feel comfortable with his kind of 'blackness.' He didn't want to be 'white.' He wanted to be privileged. And he was.' Huck Finn: 'There's a Mark Twain Middle School not three miles from my base camp. An administrative aide there, a 'black' man, had wanted to delete any reference to that archaic/contemporary word 'nigger' from Twain's book--the one place where such copious use of the word in society was first best put in perspective, where it was used to describe a condition, where it reflected on the speaker, not the subject. There is not one usage of nigger in Huck Finn that I consider inauthentic and I am hard to please that way.' No one writing today has the incisiveness, the fire to dissect the world the way Ralph Wiley does. In Dark Witness he proves once again that he is one the most gifted writers chronicling life in the crucible that is late-twentieth century America. …