Look Out, Whitey! Black Power's Gon' Get Your Mama! [Paperback]

Julius. Lester (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Grove Press; First Printing edition (May 1969)
• ISBN-10: 039417139X
• ISBN-13: 978-0394171395
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,700,055 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Born in 1939, Julius Lester spent his youth in the Midwest and the South and received a B.A. in English from Fisk University in 1960.Since 1968 he has published 25 books of fiction, nonfiction, children's books, and poetry. Among the awards these books have received are the Newbery Honor Medal, American Library Association Notable Book, National Jewish Book Award Finalist, The New York Times Outstanding Book, National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, Caldecott Honor Book, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and a National Book Award Finalist. His books have been translated into eight languages.He has published more than one hundred essays and reviews in such publications The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Op-Ed Page, The Boston Globe, The Village Voice, The New Republic, Katallagete, Moment, Forward, and Dissent.He has recorded two albums of original songs, hosted and produced a radio show on WBAI-FM in New York City for eight years, and hosted a live television show on WNET in New York for two years. A veteran of the Civil Rights Movement, his photographs of that movement are included in an exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution and are part of the permanent photographic collection at Howard University.After teaching at the New School for Social Research for two years, Mr. Lester joined the faculty of the University of Massachusetts/Amherst in 1971 where he is presently a full professor in the Judaic and Near Eastern Studies Department, and adjunct professor in the English and History departments. He also serves as lay religious leader of Beth El Synagogue in St. Johnsbury, Vermont.He has been awarded all four of the university's most prestigious faculty awards: The Distinguished Teacher's Award; the Faculty Fellowship Award for Distinguished Research and Scholarship; Distinguished Faculty Lecturer; and recipient of the Chancellor's Medal, the University's highest honor. In 1986 the Council for Advancement and Support of Education selected him as the Massachusetts State Professor of the Year.Mr. Lester's biography has appeared in Who's Who In America since 1970. He has given lectures and papers at more than 100 colleges and universities.His most recent books are John Henry, And All Our Wounds Forgiven, a novel about the civil rights movement, and Othello, a novel based on the Shakespeare play.

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5.0 out of 5 stars So Little Has Changed, May 11, 2008

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J. Paige "paige me" (Houston, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Look Out, Whitey! Black Power's Gon' Get Your Mama! (Paperback)

Well argued and persuasively written. It is as relevant today as it was when it was originally published. All the injustice and white liberal "benign" racism Lester describes has not been changed in the intervening 40 years. If anything, we have lived long enough to see any positive outcomes of the civil rights movement, whether achieved through peaceful or violent means, undone. If in doubt about this observation, then read Shame of the Nation, by Jonathan Kozol, as a companion to this slim and honest volume. Highly recommended.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Mediocre Black Nationalist Rantings, January 4, 2010

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Cwn_Annwn (Copenhagen, Denmark) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Look Out, Whitey!: Black Power's Gon' Get Your Mama! (Mass Market Paperback)

I wanted to read this because I thought the title of the book was hilarious and I've always enjoyed reading black nationalist literature. The more radical and extreme the better. So I had high hopes for Look Out Whitey! He writes in a fairly entertaining ranting style, full of parody, satire and sarcasm but this was pretty mediocre as far as stuff like this goes. Overall a disappointment. Its also too dated to be relevant now and judging by a lot of what he wrote and the title he seemed like he wrote this book as a means to thumb his nose at white people more than for any kind of serious black nationalists. Besides who the hell is Julius Lester anyway? I've read my share of stuff by and about black radicals from the 60s and 70s but I have never heard of him.

3 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Concious, January 17, 2004

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"shauntrice" (Louisville) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Look Out, Whitey! Black Power's Gon' Get Your Mama! (Paperback)

this book not only reveals the limitations placed on us as blacks in Amerikkka, it also gets youth interested. not unlike John Henrick Clarke's African World Revolution, it isn't a persuasive argument--it shows how there is no doubt we must move up on the oppressor! a quick read, only took me a few days.