Race manners for the 21st century : navigating the minefield between Black and White Americans in an age of fear /
In the wake of 9/11, confronting race relations in American is as daunting as it is necessary. Race Manners shows us how we can begin a civilized, meaningful dialogue-not with evasive abstractions, but with practicality and candor. The second edition, completely revised and updated, is a guide to im...
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New York :
Arcade Pub. : Distributed by Hachette Book Group USA,
c2006.
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Table of Contents:
- OUT IN THE OPEN
- Black, white and scared: our new scapegoating in the post-9/11 age
- Traveling in terror: self-protection versus excess baggage
- Still caught in Katrina: facing our ongoing storm of race and class
- Survival and stereotype on the street
- Subliminal training: race in public transit
- MATTERS OF OPINION
- Rage radio and screaming heads: how to survive talk show culture
- Take me to your leader: who gets to speak for whom?
- Til O.J. do us part: race and our encounters with police
- The extraterrestrialʼs guide to hate
- Affirmative action and beyond: controversies that will not die and why
- IDENTITY
- Showing our ID: what is race, anyway?
- You my nigga: whoʼs naming whom?
- Congratulations! Youʼre ethnic! Elvis to Eminem: black music and the fight over who owns culture
- Hey, yo: what color do you speak?
- Telling ethnic jokes: do you dare?
- JUST BETWEEN US
- Whatʼs wrong with Tolerance?
- Picking your spots: when is it worth it to speak up?
- A state of being sorry: the nice black man syndrome
- Learn three facts and start yelling: the updated ten most bigoted ideas held by black and white Americans
- The color of love: interracial relationships in black and white
- Epilogue: is there hope?