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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 320.508996073
Fabric Type: 9780691126098
Legal Disclaimer: 0691126097
Maximum Color Depth: Princeton University Press
Metal Type: Princeton University Press
Publisher: 1
Region Code: 368
Total External Bays Free: July 03, 2006
Total Firewire Ports: Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
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What is the best way to understand black political ideology? Just listen to the everyday talk that emerges in public spaces, suggests Melissa Harris-Lacewell. And listen this author has--to black college students talking about the Million Man March and welfare, to Southern, black Baptists discussing homosexuality in the church, to black men in a barbershop early on a Saturday morning, to the voices of hip-hop music and Black Entertainment Television.
Using statistical, experimental, and ethnographic methods Barbershops, Bibles, and B.E.T offers a new perspective on the way public opinion and ideologies are formed at the grassroots level. The book makes an important contribution to our understanding of black politics by shifting the focus from the influence of national elites in opinion formation to the influence of local elites and people in daily interaction with each other. Arguing that African Americans use community dialogue to jointly develop understandings of their collective political interests, Harris-Lacewell identifies four political ideologies that constitute the framework of contemporary black political thought: Black Nationalism, Black Feminism, Black Conservatism and Liberal Integrationism. These ideologies, the book posits, help African Americans to understand persistent social and economic inequality, to identify the significance of race in that inequality, and to devise strategies for overcoming it.
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I was curious what the author, who teaches Politics and American Studies at Princeton University had to say. She was raised Unitarian Universalist (UU), is still a UU and also a Christian. "As a black woman I find it impossible to ignore that it was the spirit of love, accepted by enslaved black people in stories and theology of Christianity that pointed the way out of no way. My search for truth has led me to study at Union Theological seminary. I still stand in open mouthed wonder as I try ... Read More
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I more prefer books written more accessibly -- this one's written like a college paper. Still, the information it holds is very good and and excellent source for conversations about race in America.
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After seeing the author interviewed on Bill Moyers' show, I was really looking forward to the book. I was disappointed in how much it read like a text book; it was very dry and more of a chore to read than a pleasure. She did her research, she developed a cogent point of view, but delivered it academically.
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