The Old Fat White Guy's Guide To Ebonics [Paperback]

I. B. White (Author), Cliff Carle (Editor)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: CCC Publications (May 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1576440605
• ISBN-13: 978-1576440605
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,864,394 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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28 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A novelty book not even worth its inexpensive price., October 29, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Old Fat White Guy's Guide To Ebonics (Paperback)

A novelty book consisting merely of a list of silly vocabulary words. E.g., "discard" means "this card." There must be a better Ebonics book out there.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I'm "Hooked on Ebonics", October 19, 2005

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Bachelier ""1004"" (Ile de France) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Old Fat White Guy's Guide To Ebonics (Paperback)

In a rather obvious parody that was slapped together with the same speed as the Killian documents, and probably with the same default settings, we have half the chuckles we paid for. If you are amused by this book's title you could, quite frankly, drink a six pack of beer and write this yourself and probably be just as funny. If you have any half way funny friends you could write a better book than this, probably with the same six pack of beer.

Ebonics itself, and the schadenfreude it inspires in author "I. B. White," is tragically beyond parody and firmly in the territory of pitiable. If it was a cultural artifact inherently capable of being the basis for humor, it would need to be formed in simultaneously more deft and cruel hands, such as the late Michael O'Donoghue.

I be trippin if you be buyin dis book fo hew-mo lik dis, fo sho.

9 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I read the book, and now I'm black, July 29, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The Old Fat White Guy's Guide To Ebonics (Paperback)

After buying and reading this book, I magically transformed from an old, fat white guy to a young, thin, black man. Well worth the money. Now off I go to increase racial awareness.