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Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism: The Hidden Costs of Being Black in America (Critical America Series)

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In reading this book I left with a different but more aware state of mind. I am in school for law and after reading this book it allowed me to see that as a country and me being a black woman that we still have a very long way to go for racial justice. I recomend this book to everyone because it was excellent and I tend to read it again.

In reading this book I left with a different but more aware state of mind. I am in school for law and after reading this book it allowed me to see that as a country and me being a black woman that we still have a very long way to go for racial justice. I recomend this book to everyone because it was excellent and I tend to read it again.

In reading this book I left with a different but more aware state of mind. I am in school for law and after reading this book it allowed me to see that as a country and me being a black woman that we still have a very long way to go for racial justice. I recomend this book to everyone because it was excellent and I tend to read it again.

We of course need more transgressive/radical voices than this volume, because it is only tentative in condemning the white male eurocentric paradigms of hatred. Instead, Armour somewhat haughtily tells white Americans how to *stop* being racist(!) while failing to intimately observe the white male mindset. As a feminist who is also a white woman, I am always a little disappointed in books of this sort; feminism attacks racism both head-on and discursively, and it is to feminism which this author devotes little space. However, this book could be a useful primer to high school students, especially in predominantly white schools. I must recommend the more courageous work of feminist thinkers for college students.