Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism: The Hidden Costs of Being Black in America

by Jody Armour and Jody David Armour

Book Overview

Tackling the ugly secret of unconscious racism in American society, this book provides specific solutions to counter this entrenched phenomenon.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814706703
• ISBN13: 9780814706701
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

An interesting book;

We of course need more transgressive/radical voices than this volume, because it is only tentative in condemning the white male eurocentric paradigms of hatred. Instead, Armour somewhat haughtily tells white Americans how to *stop* being racist(!) while failing to intimately observe the white male mindset. As a feminist who is also a white woman, I am always a little disappointed in books of this sort; feminism attacks racism both head-on and discursively, and it is to feminism which this author devotes little space. However, this book could be a useful primer to high school students, especially in predominantly white schools. I must recommend the more courageous work of feminist thinkers for college students.

the book was the best that I have read in a long time.

In reading this book I left with a different but more aware state of mind. I am in school for law and after reading this book it allowed me to see that as a country and me being a black woman that we still have a very long way to go for racial justice. I recomend this book to everyone because it was excellent and I tend to read it again.