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Stupid Black Men: How to Play the Race Card - and Lose
Larry Elder
Publisher: St. Martin's Press, $24.95, 352pp
ISBN-13: 9780312367336
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Radio host and bestselling author Larry Elder has made a career out of being a thorn-in-the-side of the conventional wisdom crowd. He deflates the pompous and points out the completely logical truths hidden behind the nutty rhetoric and out-of-control pandering of many of the politicians and so-called leaders of a variety of special interest groups. In Stupid Black Men, he takes on the mind-set that always captures the most media attention—as well as masses of public money—in this country: those who rail against racism as the root of all problems, and who end up hurting precisely those they claim to be helping.
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Intersectionality and Politics: Recent Research on Gender, Race, and Political Representation in the United States
Carol Hardy-Fanta (Editor)
Haworth Press, $45, 218pp
ISBN-13: 9780789036667
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Traditionally, there has been a significant lack of empirical attention given to the ways in which race/ethnicity, gender, and political representation overlap. Intersectionality and Politics is the groundbreaking collection of contemporary research and essays that applies the concept of intersectionality specifically to descriptive and substantive representation by African-American, Latino/a, and Asian-American elected officials. This unique compilation looks at numerous states and focuses on multiple racial/ethnic groups to demonstrate the importance of this theory for understanding the political leadership of people of color and women.
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Living Through the Hoop: High School Basketball, Race, and the American Dream
Reuben A. Buford May
NYU Press, $29.95, 272pp.
ISBN 814757294
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When high school basketball player LeBron James was selected as the top pick in the National Basketball Association draft of 2003, the hopes of a half-million high school basketball players soared. If LeBron could go straight from high school to the NBA, why couldnt they? Such is the allure of basketball for so many young African American men. Unfortunately, the reality is that their chances of ever playing basketball at the professional, or even college, level are infinitesimal. In Living Through the Hoop, May tells the absorbing story of the hopes and struggles of one high school basketball team.
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Authentic New Orleans:Tourism, Culture, and Race in the Big Easy
Kevin Fox Gotham
NYU Press, $23, 288pp.
ISBN 0814731864 |
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Gotham shows how New Orleans was able to become one of the most popular tourist attractions in the United States, especially through the transformation of Mardi Gras into a national, even international, event. All the while Gotham is concerned with showing the difference between tourism from above and tourism from below — that is, how New Orleans distinctiveness is both maximized, some might say exploited, to serve the global economy of tourism as well as how local groups and individuals use tourism to preserve and anchor longstanding communal traditions.
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