Women: Images & Realities, A Multicultural Anthology

Women: Images & Realities, A Multicultural Anthology
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Aishe Berger Is a Wonderful Poet

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Women: Images & Realities, A Multicultural Anthology
Amy Kesselman , Lily D McNair , and Nancy Schniedewind
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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ASIN: 0073127647

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This best-selling anthology is a unique introduction to feminism and women’s studies. It presents a multidisciplinary collection of academic essays and analyses, personal narratives, and fiction and poetry about women’s lives. The selections illustrate the variety of women’s experiences, primarily in the United States, considering both commonalities and differences among women and appreciating women’s diverse approaches to living and fostering change.

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Aishe Berger Is a Wonderful Poet.......2005-02-26

There are so many wonderful pieces in this collection, but my favorite is Aishe Berger's poem Nose Is a Country...I Am the Second Generation. She deserves to be read and re-read. Buy the book, if only to read her work!

Feminists buy this book.......1999-04-26

I originally read this book for a women studies class at SUNY New Paltz. Here I am two years later, unable to find my original buying it again. It is a helpful book for all women studies courses, and an excellent book for one's own life, using personal essays relating to women's issues.

Developing Positive Self-Images and Discipline in Black Children

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Positive Black Images
"A Parenting Must"

Developing Positive Self-Images and Discipline in Black Children
Jauanza Kunjufu
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This book discusses what's the relationship between selfesteem and student achievement? Find the answers to this and other questions in this book.

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Positive Black Images.......2006-11-10

An excellent read and a must have for all African-American families. The book guides parents and others in our community on ways to navigate through a system that is not geared for the positive growth and development of our children. It gives us positive ways to overcome this system without condemning the system itself. Dr. Kunjufu is to be congratulated for producing another valuable tool for African-American families.

"A Parenting Must".......2000-04-22

For the last five years I have been informed by the text of Dr. Konjufu. His books provide a learning foundation for therapist as well as parents. This book illustrates the "must" one should be familiar with when rearing a child. If there should exist such a map which leads us to a promised postive future for our children, then this book should be entered in as the "scale" for the map and the bibliography for the book on how to develop your child.

Screaming Monkeys: Critiques of Asian American Images

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Screaming Monkeys: Critiques of Asian American Images

Manufacturer: Coffee House Press
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ASIN: 1566891418

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When a restaurant review referred to a Filipino child as a "rambunctious -little monkey," Filipino Americans were outraged. Sparked by this racist incident, Screaming Monkeys sets fire to Asian American stereotypes as it -illuminates the diverse and often neglected history and culture within the Asian American diaspora. Poems, essays, paintings, and stories break down and challenge "found" articles, photographs, and headlines to create this powerful anthology with all the immediacy of social protest. By closely critiquing a wealth of material, including the judge's statement of apology in the Wen Ho Lee case, the media treatment of serial killer Andrew Cunanan, and the image of Asian Americans in major U.S. marketing campaigns, Screaming Monkeys will inspire all its readers.

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PALH-EZINE'S REVIEW (by Rocio G. Davis).......2004-02-04

Screaming Monkeys enacts one of the most challenging, yet culturally rewarding, subversions of prevailing stereotypes of Asian Americans in contemporary mass media. The title of the anthology comes from a controversial incident that sparked the editor's anger: in a restaurant review published in Milwaukee Magazine in 1998, the reviewer calls a young Filipino American boy a "rambunctious little monkey," leading to a flurry of indignant responses by Asians. The key issue was simple: the writer's ignorance of Filipino and Filipino American history led her to frivolously write what she probably considered a cute anecdote. How exceedingly misguided she was is evidenced by this amazing anthology, a dramatic work of creativity and resistance to uninformed cultural categories and a vital document that professors of Asian American studies or anyone interested in the complex history of Asians in America will appreciate.

Sunaina Maira, noting the "rise of Indo-chic" in the last couple of years, "part of a wider marketing of `Asian cool' in fashion, music, and film," asks the crucial question: "So what kinds of representations do we, and can we, construct in response?" Here is the answer: M. Evelina Galang and her amazing team of editors have constructed an anthology of a wide range of texts and images that illustrate how Asian America has been uncritically represented in the media and in art, to challenge those representations with art itself. The juxtaposition of creative modes-fiction, poetry, essay, art with advertisements and critical pieces-provides a nuanced perspective of the vexed position of Asian Americans in mainstream America, and obliges us to rethink our manner of cultural classifications. The range and quality of the contributions is to be applauded-texts by established writers such as Carlos Bulosan, Maxine Hong Kingston, Gish Jen, Hisaye Yamamoto, and Li-Young Lee dialogue with work by young artists, "found" images and texts that include a Skyy Vodka ad, a photograph of Madonna "channeling her inner geisha" (488), a reproduction of a Newsweek article from 2000 that claims that Asian men are the latest trophy boyfriends, Bill Clinton's apology to Japanese America, and critical or personal essays, like Wen Ho Lee's account of his interrogation by the CIA and an essay by David Mura where he explains why he's glad he didn't get a role in Fargo. As such, the anthology's vital metacritical design is to make Asian American voices (screams!) heard-loudly! These texts subvert stereotypical images by presenting them in a new strategic light: they show how the media invents, advocates, and sustains the stereotypes of Asians in America precisely because they have misunderstood, ignored or trivialized the presence of Asians in American history, culture, cities, sports, and entertainment. And it allows Asian Americans to speak for themselves, though an extraordinary assemblage of artistic modes. The selections are warm and funny, cynical and offensive, suspect and strange, but, as a whole, the anthology will not leave one indifferent. Galang's intelligent and thoughtful anthology is a vital contribution to the development of Asian American cultural studies.
(by Rocio G. Davis, for PALH-EZINE)

How We See God and Why It Matters: A Multicultural View Through Children's Drawings and Stories
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How We See God and Why It Matters: A Multicultural View Through Children's Drawings and Stories
Robert J. Landy
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ASIN: 0398071713

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This is a book about seeing the ultimate mystery as represented by the figure of God. It is not about religion per se, although it makes reference to many of the great religious traditions of the world and their gods. Rather, it is about the presence of the spiritual world and its inhabitants. The author's aim is to attempt to answer the question, How do we see God? through engaging with the images created by a group of children from a number of different cultures and spiritual backgrounds. Through a two-year period, the author travelled the world interviewing more than 500 children, asking them to draw a picture of God, to act and speak as God, and to tell a story about God. This text is a documentation of that journey into the lives and spiritual beliefs of children. Throughout the book, a broad selection of pictures and stories by the children is reproduced and paraphrased. The author offers his own commentaries, not as an analyst in a psychological sense or critic in a literary one, but as a God-seeker trusting in the power of the image to reveal meaning. This unique book will be of primary interest to professionals in the field of psychology, especially child and family therapists, as well as art and drama therapy, sociology, and theology. The book will also have appeal to parents and children who are looking for ways to understand their belief systems in relationship to others.

The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America (Harvard Univ. Kennedy School of Gov't Goldsmith Book Prize Winner; Amer. Political Science ... in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion)

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Valuable but Naively Assimilationist in Tone
Long needed research.

The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America (Harvard Univ. Kennedy School of Gov't Goldsmith Book Prize Winner; Amer. Political Science ... in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion)
Robert M. Entman , and Andrew Rojecki
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Winner of the Frank Luther Mott Award for best book in Mass Communication and the Robert E. Lane Award for best book in political psychology.

Living in a segregated society, white Americans learn about African Americans not through personal relationships but through the images the media show them. The Black Image in the White Mind offers the most comprehensive look at the intricate racial patterns in the mass media and how they shape the ambivalent attitudes of Whites toward Blacks.

Using the media, and especially television, as barometers of race relations, Robert Entman and Andrew Rojecki explore but then go beyond the treatment of African Americans on network and local news to incisively uncover the messages sent about race by the entertainment industry-from prime-time dramas and sitcoms to commercials and Hollywood movies. While the authors find very little in the media that intentionally promotes racism, they find even less that advances racial harmony. They reveal instead a subtle pattern of images that, while making room for Blacks, implies a racial hierarchy with Whites on top and promotes a sense of difference and conflict. Commercials, for example, feature plenty of Black characters. But unlike Whites, they rarely speak to or touch one another. In prime time, the few Blacks who escape sitcom buffoonery rarely enjoy informal, friendly contact with White colleagues—perhaps reinforcing social distance in real life.

Entman and Rojecki interweave such astute observations with candid interviews of White Americans that make clear how these images of racial difference insinuate themselves into Whites' thinking.

Despite its disturbing readings of television and film, the book's cogent analyses and proposed policy guidelines offer hope that America's powerful mediated racial separation can be successfully bridged.

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Valuable but Naively Assimilationist in Tone.......2002-03-11

This is an important and well-researched study of the image of African Americans as presented in the media (mostly TV and Movies). Indeed, it is a "must read" for anyone interested in white attitudes regarding African Americans. The authors begin with a nice review the dominant survey research approach to gauging change in racial attitudes. They also discuss their own survey and qualitative study of Whites living in the Indianapolis metro area. The findings of the in-depth qualitative interviews are particularly interesting and valuable for folks interested in the validity of survey research on racial attitudes.

Rightly reserving the use of the counterproductive term "racist" for those who feel Blacks are a "lower order of humanity," the authors develop a framework for categorizing White American views of the African American population from "low denial" (enlightened) to "high denial" (overtly racist) (chapter 2).

In their view, most whites fall between these poles--termed by the authors as "ambivalent" (a mix of positive and negative views about Blacks.)

Unapologetically integrationist (assimilationist?) in their views, the authors see "low denial" whites as those folks who view African Americans sympathetically and empathetically, (as brothers/sisters), who share fundamental interests, but who suffer unique barriers to equal opportunity.

What seems to differentiate the "low-denial" whites from their well-meaning but "ambivalent" peers is that low-denial whites uncritically accept the victimization explanation for the social problems of the Black community.

This is where the trouble begins...

According to the authors, enlightened Whites see the Black community as largely helpless in the face of White dominated society. Hence, for example, high rates of crime and non-marital births stem from forces external to the Black community. These "enlightened" Whites appear to believe that if anti-Black stereotypes and discrimination were to end, the social problems experienced by African Americans would be resolved.

On the other hand, the mass of "ambivalent" whites is less likely to let struggling Black folks off the hook. They tend to see each person as a moral agent with the freedom to make choices even in the face of discrimination and inequality. They also feel that the stereotypes of Black folks have a grain of truth to them--e.g., that blacks do tend to be, say, less educated, more violent, more likely to bear children out of wedlock than Whites or Asians, as evidenced by empirical evidence reported in the media. These folks wonder (rightly in my opinion) whether current discrimination is really so powerful and dehumanizing as to engender the social problems of the black community.

The weakness of this morally laden framework is that it perceives folks who have honest questions about the role of individual choice and moral responsibility (i.e., character) in shaping life chances as somehow unenlightened ("in denial"). With the huge social problems associated with the Black community, I think it is fair to say that "ambivalent" attitudes towards blacks are justified. Indeed, survey evidence suggests that African Americans also share ambivalent attitudes towards their own racial group. (Even Jesse Jackson has made public his personal ambivalence towards young black men, admitting that he often has felt relieved to discover that the stranger walking towards him on a darkened street is not Black.)

If the majority of African Americans also recognize that endemic social problems exist within poor black communities, does that mean that they too are "in denial?"

Later in the book the authors go on to encourage the media to construct positive images that encourage "racial comity." They frame this as an ethical and political responsibility. But because the authors emphasize IMAGE over REALITY, the book often takes on an Orwellian tone. In my opinion, if the media seeks honest portrayals of African Americans, it will often reflect the reality of difference.

The authors seem to assume assimilation as a valued goal by finding flaw with any racial differentiation in fictional portrayals in movies and television. While multiculturalism celebrates group differences, the authors find problematic any racial differentiation whatsoever. This is a flawed perspective. African Americans are have a distinct history and culture and are not simply white folks in dark face. I suspect the authors would erase expression of these existential differences from the media if given the chance.

So while the book is a valuable contribution (as discussed by the previous reviewer), it suffers from a naively self-righteous and assimilationist perspective.

Long needed research........2000-06-06

This is a very important book of research. Though written in sociologist language (lots of statistics and repetitition claims), this is one work that provides meticulous reserach about how the media help perpetuate racial stereotypes and prototypes in this society.

As a teacher who is studying widely literature about the media, I found Entman and Rojecki's work useful for providing a lens to better analyze media representations of Black and White people. The authors contend that "Blacks now occupy a kind of limbo status in White America's thinking, neither fully accepted nor wholly rejected by the dominant culture. The ambiguity of Blacks' situation gives particular relevance and perhaps potency to the images of African Americans in the media."

They show that though representations of Black people are quantitatively better than in the past, these representations still convey stereotypical or ambiguous images of Blacks. For example, though there has been sharp increase of Black male actors in movies, their roles still revolve around plots that focus on sports, crime, and violence. In the area of news media, Blacks are usually presented as sources of disruption, as victims, and as complaining supplicants. These type of images, they contend, help to maintain a gap in what they refer to as comity on the part of Whites toward Blacks and other racial minorities in this country.

They provide a well known but much needed reiteration of why the media maintains these stereotypes and marginalizations of racial minorities: largely it's eoncomics."Media workers," they argue, "seek to make money for their organizations and advance their own careers. That means that they must stay vigilantly attuned to the presumed tastes of their target audiences. These creators operate in a professional culture and organizationl milieu that transmits lessons about what attracts and sells, what upsets and repels. Ratings and market research increasingly inform decisions, whether about news coverage or entertainment plots." They argue that political and White ethnocentricism play an equal role as well

Though critics may disagree with some of the authors'analysis and conclusions, this book deserves wide reading in media studies, communications, ethnic studies, and sociology courses. It should be read as a useful resource by concerned teachers and media activists.

Curriculum And the Cultural Body (Complicated Conversation: a Book Series of Curriculum Studies)
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Curriculum and the Cultural Body extends the discussion of body knowledge by attending to the unspoken questions and practices in education that silence, conceal, and limit bodies. The collection of essays exemplifies a new genre of interdisciplinary writing, drawing on such diverse discourses as curriculum studies; cultural studies; film studies; media and technology studies; feminist theory; queer theory; phenomenology; a/r/tography; and art education. The authors in this edited book explore the multiplicities and complexities of the body in learning and knowing. Each engages with questions that relate the practices of culture to a re-conceptualization of the body in and as curriculum.

Lives of Images (Reaktion Books - Picturing History)

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Lives of Images (Reaktion Books - Picturing History)
Peter Mason
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In the Lives of Images, Peter Mason examines four striking case studies involving the production and transmission of visual images of non-European peoples. Beginning with what has been taken to be the earliest three-dimensional European representation of Native Americans, he then focuses on the migration of such images via 16th century Meso-American codices to the murals painted by Diego Rivera four centuries later. Mason also looks at the relationship between drawing and engraving of natives of Formosa by Georges Psalmanaazaar, who never traveled to that country. Finally, he examines representations of the native peoples of Tierra del Fuego, from their first encounters with Europeans in the late 16th century to the present, paying particular attention to their visual traces in the work of such well-known artists as Odilon Redon.Mason's fascinating study teases out some of the implications of these particular cases to discover a concept of the image that is both primary and can truly be said to have a life of its own.

Race Code War: The Power of Words, Images, and Symbols on the Black Psyche

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You've got to be kidding!
Bitingly insightful and an articulate warning

Race Code War: The Power of Words, Images, and Symbols on the Black Psyche
Khari Enaharo
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There are more than 200 negative words associated with the word black and more than 100 positive meanings or synonyms attributed to the word white. This analysis of semantics and semiotics illustrates how words are not racially neutral and can convey negative values within the African American community or any community of color. Also examined are the impact of images, from paintings of Jesus to images of Santa Claus, and how they have shaped the way blacks are viewed and how they view themselves. This is not a book on political correctness, but rather a guide to becoming more aware of and sensitive to the impact that words and images can have on the psyche.

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You've got to be kidding!.......2003-09-01

I have to say that the author did a really good job addressing a unique topic or racism in America. The concept of hidden racially coded words and phrases in American culture is interesting. But, within the first couple of chapters I came to believe that the author must be suffering from an extreme case of paranoia and White hate. At one point the author stated that the cause of ALL of Black Americans' problems come from racism. Sorry, as a black man I'm not buying that. There's enough blame for both sides, and I'll just leave it at that.

Among the lists of words and phrases throughout the book, I did identify with some of them. And the few illustrations were great examples. However, for the most part I thought the majority of the examples given were WAY over the top.

Let's be honest, anyone can attach a racial meaning to a word, phrase, item, or image if they really put their mind to it (right after reading the book I attached a racial meaning to my black umbrella, the author didn't use them). I felt that most of the examples used in the book were really assumptions(the racial connections between candy, toothpaste, soap, computers, among others). But, the section on color codes in movies was almost on target (especially his viewpoint on The Wiz).

Also, I felt that the author was TOO afrocentric for my taste. I'm for my people and culture, but like my mother told me: "Too much of anything is not good".

Another drawback to the book was that the author failed to fully address the issue of black athletes, actors, singers, and others who willing allow themselves to be placed in racially embarrassing situations. The author did use some really good examples of how these people allow sterotypes of blacks to continue, but didn't clearly state that they are equally responsible too, or why they do it.

This book would have gotten a lower rating then it did if it wasn't for the last chapter. There the author suggested ways to combat racial code words, and I thought they were really good examples.

Overall, I would suggest this book. Like I stated in the beginning, the topic is unique and insightful. Just be prepared for the rest.

Bitingly insightful and an articulate warning.......2003-08-10

Accessibly written by Khari Enaharo (the host of the popular radio talk show "Straight Talk Live"), Race Code War: The Power Of Words, Images, And Symbols On The Black Psyche offers readers an illuminating and informative look at the hidden code words, racial images, and symbols that divide and communicate harm to Americans of all races. From the negative impact images of a white Jesus and a European beauty standard have upon persons of color, to the white media glamorization of despicable and stereotypical African-American movie characters, and much, much more, Race Code War is bitingly insightful and an articulate warning of harmful race relations secrets that will fester in the American body politic if not properly lanced. Race Code War should be a part of every personal and academic Black Studies reference collection and Race Relations reading list.

Bears on Bears: Interviews and Discussions

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A Insightful look at a part of the Gay Sub Culture
Bears and Bears
GRRRRRReat & Insightful Reading
very well done
A Bear on "Bears on Bears"

Bears on Bears: Interviews and Discussions
Ron Jackson Suresha
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Bears, for the uninitiated, are gay men who defiantly challenge society's ideal of physical appearance, who celebrate the fact that they are often large, hairy, and don't give a hoot about what fashions are parading down the runway. Ron Suresha's thought-provoking, humorous long-form interviews with men, including editor David Bergman, cartoonist Tim Barela, and comedian and writer Bruce Vilanch examine questions of gay male stereotyping, commodification of the human body, the oppressiveness of the "physical ideal," and how body image affects personal growth.

Ron Suresha's work has appeared in American Bear, The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, In Newsweekly, Gay Community News, White Crane Journal , Art & Understanding , The Bear Book, and The Bear Book II. He lives in Boston.

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A Insightful look at a part of the Gay Sub Culture.......2004-08-14

Bears on Bears looks at the bear sub culture by using interviews with those who started the movemnt, live it and hover around the fringes. Ron Jackson Suresha lets this subject matter speak with its own words. For those familure with the Bear clasification, you will delight in the retelling of the history form those who were there at the beginning. For those of you whoare new to the subject matter you will learn of a whole culture sitting under your nose.
This work is refreshing considering the gay culture is obssessed with thin blond eastern europen look.
This work allows men to be men and revel in it. Even if they do not fit the Gay Media mold.

Bears and Bears.......2004-03-17

Bears on Bears is an insightfull, well executed seires of interviews about the gay bear subculture.
Mr. Suresha's interviewing style is both intellegent and facilitory.
It a scholarly, fluid and enjoyable read without being too academic or popularist.
I recommend this book for people from all walks of life who are intersested in who people are and what makes them tick.
Bravo Mr. Suresha.

GRRRRRReat & Insightful Reading.......2003-07-04

Though I have only been exposed to the gay sub-culture, know as BEARS, for almost 4 years, it was fascinating to read the history of how this wide spread community began. Ron Suresha seems to have opened a whole new realm in the way I look at this group of masculine, "regular Joe"group of men.
The interviews in this book really get to the heart of what makes up the psychy of a BEAR man. And suprisingly, we are not much different than any other man..gay or straight!
These are very candid interviews and even give some insight into the author's 1st encounters with the BEAR sub-culture, back in its infancy!
GRRRRRRRReat job Ron & I am anticipatorily waiting for your next book!

very well done.......2003-02-22

the best of the 'bear' books so far. some of the interviews are quite thought-provoking. though there are plenty of critical things said throughout the book, it's the affirming comments that i remember. bear culture has been in the past a path for some gay men to grow and learn more about themselves and others. the book suggests that this phenomenon has not completely passed....

A Bear on "Bears on Bears".......2002-04-13

I was given "Bears on Bears" as a gift, and read it from cover to cover with interest and excitement. As a self-described bear who has been in a relationship with another self-described bear for 23 years, I thought "I had seen or knew it all." I was wrong. Ron's book opened my eyes to a much wider world, filled with diversity, a sense of history, and evolution. His interviews with a wide spectrum of men (and even a couple of women!) gave me comfort in knowing that my own experiences were not as unique as I once thought, and allowed me to learn more about the people and events that enable me to live the life I currently enjoy (as well as better understand myself). I highly recommend this book to anyone who is part of or interested in the "bear scene" not only in the United States but also around the world. It's a great read and a great learning experience.

Contempt and Pity: Social Policy and the Image of the Damaged Black Psyche, 1880-1996

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A passionate and erudite work.
Essential to the History of Racial Progress
A Big Disappointment

Contempt and Pity: Social Policy and the Image of the Damaged Black Psyche, 1880-1996
Daryl Michael Scott
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ASIN: 080784635X
Release Date: 1997-04-02

Book Description

For over a century, the idea that African Americans are psychologically damaged has played an important role in discussions of race. In this provocative work, Daryl Michael Scott argues that damage imagery has been the product of liberals and conservatives, of racists and antiracists. While racial conservatives, often playing on white contempt for blacks, have sought to use findings of black pathology to justify exclusionary policies, racial liberals have used damage imagery primarily to promote policies of inclusion and rehabilitation.

In advancing his argument, Scott challenges some long-held beliefs about the history of damage imagery. He rediscovers the liberal impulses behind Stanley Elkins's Sambo hypothesis and Daniel Patrick Moynihan's Negro Family and exposes the damage imagery in the work of Ralph Ellison, the leading anti-pathologist. He also corrects the view that the Chicago School depicted blacks as pathological products of matriarchy. New Negro experts such as Charles Johnson and E. Franklin Frazier, he says, disdained sympathy-seeking and refrained from exploring individual pathology. Scott's reassessment of social science sheds new light on Brown v. Board of Education, revealing how experts reversed four decades of theory in order to represent segregation as inherently damaging to blacks.

In this controversial work, Scott warns the Left of the dangers in their recent rediscovery of damage imagery in an age of conservative reform.

Customer Reviews:

A passionate and erudite work........1999-12-01

Mr Scott has demonstrated that the left and right have often distorted the African-Americans' humanity. This study serves to correct the position of Black folk and to return their humanity. Black folk are neither pathological as a group or helpless victims. Rather the African-American has faced discrimination and continues to face discrimination. Yet the solution to the African-Americans problems aren't exceptional, but rather are the result of years of discrimination. The African-American response has been admirable considering the discrimination we have faced. We have built our own institutions and thrived, irrespective of racism. Still a group with such baggage can go so far--so quickly. However, we deserve neither contempt nor pity--just a fair shake.

Essential to the History of Racial Progress.......1999-10-17

Scott's book is a comprehensive and insightful overview of the story surrounding the Black psyche as it has been understood by those that create American race policy. It is an invaluable text to anyone seriously interested in the intellectual history of Psychology, and/or race in America.

A Big Disappointment.......1999-02-19

This author does a half... job at tearing down the accomplishments of social science - particularly sociology. He often fuses ideas of the individual (psychology) and the social reformers (I suppose he means sociologists). Moreover, while it appears that his sources are abundant his examinations at best are remedial. This work is the epitome of the kind of subjective methodology one can expect from scholars of history. I found his work to be completely bias and often times contradictory.

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