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“As everyone knows, there's only one thing that can end racism: laughter. Or fire. This book is a ready source of both. Read it with someone you hate.”
—Jon Stewart, The Daily Show

“An insightful and provocative treatise on race.?”
—John Hodgman, author of The Areas of My Expertise

“Mr. Dalton's book is sure to soothe, or possibly inflame, racial hatred.”
—George Meyer, writer and producer for The Simpsons


Product Description

A hilarious look at the races of the world—capturing the proud history and bright future of racism in one handy, authoritative, and deeply offensive volume

Meet “C. H. Dalton,” a professor of racialist studies and a leading authority on inferior people of all ethnicities, genders, religions, and sexual preferences. In the grand tradition of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Birth of a Nation, he is on a mission to clarify the truth about self-supremacy, drawing on eminent scholarship to enlighten a new generation of hate-mongers. Presenting evidence that everyone should be hated (even white people), A Practical Guide to Racism contains sparkling bits of wisdom on such subjects as:
• The good life enjoyed by blacks, who shuffle through life unhindered by the white man’s burdens, such as reverse racism and white slavery, to become accomplished athletes, rhymesmiths, and dominoes champions.
• The sad story of the industrious, intelligent Jews, whose entire reputation is sullied by their unfortunate taste for the blood of Christian babies.
• A close look at the bizarre, sweet-smelling race known as “women,” who are not good at anything— especially ruling the free world.
• A crucial manual to Arabs, a people so sensitive they are liable to blow up at any time.
• A country-by-country breakdown of the “Yellow Peril,” with pointers for telling apart a race of people who all look the same.

Also included is a comprehensive glossary of timeless epithets, with hundreds of pejorative words for everyone from Phoenicians to Jews. A Practical Guide to Racism is sure to spark honest, instructive discourse.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Gotham; illustrated edition edition (December 27, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1592403484
  • ISBN-13: 978-1592403486
  • Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.6 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #66,878 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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    #69 in  Books > Nonfiction > Social Sciences > Sociology > Race Relations > America
    #92 in  Books > History > United States > African Americans

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Satiric Look at Racisms Old and New, January 11, 2008
A Practical Guide to Racism offers pitch-perfect satires of racism of every stripe. Humor of the Sarah Silverman variety is blended with Dadaist absurdism and its close sibling: the scientific racism of the nineteenth century (a helpful appendix compares the skulls of members of dozens of races to the skull of Friedrich Schiller). The blustery narrator Dalton parrots and exaggerates all of the brutish and inane things that men have ever said of one another. Not for the faint of heart, but then, as this book amply demonstrates, neither is real life.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars This book is so funny!!, January 8, 2008
By Philip Fernbach (Providence, RI) - See all my reviews
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In case you're worried that C.H. Dalton plays favorites, let me allay your concerns. Every race, gender, ethnicity and even species you can think of is skewered in this book. Dalton's comments are often as incisive as they are funny. At the end of the book you are left not only with a ton of laughs but also with a real feeling of the absurdity of racism.

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious Parody of racial stereotypes, January 23, 2008
By Finnegan "Caffeine Queen" (Montello, Wisconsin USA) - See all my reviews
My nephew who is in college had this item on his holiday gift list. When it was delivered to my mailbox, I flipped through it before gift wrapping it... and I was totally sucked in to this book! Everyone in our house passed this book around that night randomly selecting paragraphs or quotations to read aloud. We laughed at the silliness of it all.

The title makes it sound like it could be offensive - one of my initial thoughts, and the reason I started perusing the contents. If it is considered offensive, at least it offends everyone equally across the board. No group is exempt. It is actually based on a course about white supremacy taught by a college professor in the early 1900's - and then satirized to amplify how absolutely ridiculous and stupid bigots sound when they speak.

The gift was received with a lot of hugs and gratitude from my nephew who is sharing it with friends and colleagues.
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5.0 out of 5 stars simply offensive, simply hysterical....
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5.0 out of 5 stars Reason
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A wasted opportunity. A few laughs at the beginning of the book but then it fell flat on it's face. Merpeople?
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5.0 out of 5 stars Greatness in paper form.
Dalton did some truly amazing work in this epic piece. If you are even slighly amused by racsist jokes, this is the book for you. Read more
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