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9780465017201

Is Bill Cosby Right? Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?

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  • ISBN13:

    9780465017201

  • ISBN10:

    0465017207

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-01-24
  • Publisher: Civitas Books

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Summary

The acclaimed writer, preacher, and "hip-hop intellectual" exposes the raw nerve of class and generational warfare in black America with this provocative defense of poor African Americans.

Author Biography

Michael Eric Dyson, named by Ebony as one of the hundred most influential black Americans, is the author of sixteen books, including Holler if You Hear Me, Is Bill Cosby Right? and I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King Jr. He is currently University Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

Preface xi
Introduction An Afristocrat in Winter 1(14)
Speaking of Race Or Not
15(42)
Classrooms and Cell Blocks
57(46)
What's in a Name (Brand)?
103(38)
Family Values
141(40)
Shadow Boxing with a Scapegoat? (or, Do White People Matter?)
181(58)
Afterword ``Niggas Come in All Colors'' 239(4)
Acknowledgments 243(2)
Notes 245(28)
Index 273

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