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American Politics and the African American Quest for Universal Freedom (4th Edition)

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This book was purchased for my son, John,(a junior in college); it is a textbook for a course he is taking. He called me very excited about the book once he recieved it and started to read it. I was impressed; it is unusual to find a student excited about a textbook he/she is required to read. I give it a big thumbs up and suggested to him that he keep it for his library whether than selling it when he completes the course, he can always use it for reference purposes. Superb book!

I didn't really like this book. It was for a course I was taking up at San Francisco State University. It was too heavily weighted towards the African American problems of equality. It was a long list of complaints against the white majority, and I felt offended by some of the material in the book. Like I said, it was required reading for a Poly Science course I was taking.

This book was straight up racist against white people. It argues that affirmative action based on socioeconomic status rather than race would be bad for black people... Yeah, rich black people. Also I had to pay over 70 dollars for this "textbook" that refers to the Bush presidents as "Bush one and two". If you have to buy this textbook for a class TAKE ANOTHER CLASS.