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- catalog abstract "Americans are mired in racial assumptions, misunderstandings, biases - about everything from Ebonics to Elvis, O.J. Simpson to affirmative action, ethnic jokes to interracial sex. Race Manners shows us how we can confront them, not by offering lofty abstractions, sterile policy statements, or a saccharine celebration of multicultural relativism, but instead by giving us practical, sane, intelligent, and heartfelt advice. Here is a book that will help all of us make our way through the minefield of race in America.".
- catalog contributor b11030089.
- catalog coverage "United States Race relations.".
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description "Americans are mired in racial assumptions, misunderstandings, biases - about everything from Ebonics to Elvis, O.J. Simpson to affirmative action, ethnic jokes to interracial sex. Race Manners shows us how we can confront them, not by offering lofty abstractions, sterile policy statements, or a saccharine celebration of multicultural relativism, but instead by giving us practical, sane, intelligent, and heartfelt advice.".
- catalog description "Here is a book that will help all of us make our way through the minefield of race in America.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Fear of Frankness -- 1. Typhoid Marvin: Blacks, Whites, and Public Transit -- 2. Survival and Stereotype: On the Street and in Public -- 3. Traffic Patterns: The Black Man's Burden: Hailing a Cab -- 3. Traffic Patterns: Race Through a Windshield: Squeegee Kids and You -- 4. Till O.J. Do Us Part: Our Separate and Unequal Brushes with the Law -- 5. The Extraterrestrial's Guide to Hate -- 6. Killing the Conversation on Affirmative Action -- 7. Elvis Has Not Left the Building -- 8. Black? African American? European American? White? What's in Our Names? -- 9. Congratulations! You're Ethnic! -- 10. "Hey, Yo!": Black Talk, White Talk, and the Color of Speech -- 11. "Black" Jokes, Polish Jokes, and George Jefferson: Who Are We Laughing At? -- 12. A State of Being Sorry -- 13. The Black Ambassador -- 14. Are You Calling Me a Racist? -- 15. Race to Nowhere: The Ten Worst Racial Ideas of Black, and White, Americans.".
- catalog extent "xi, 194 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Race manners.".
- catalog identifier "1559704535 (hc.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Race manners.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Arcade Pub. ; [Boston] : Distributed by Little, Brown and Company,".
- catalog relation "Race manners.".
- catalog spatial "United States Race relations.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "305.8/00973 21".
- catalog subject "African Americans Life skills guides.".
- catalog subject "E185.615 .J297 1999".
- catalog subject "Whites United States Life skills guides.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Fear of Frankness -- 1. Typhoid Marvin: Blacks, Whites, and Public Transit -- 2. Survival and Stereotype: On the Street and in Public -- 3. Traffic Patterns: The Black Man's Burden: Hailing a Cab -- 3. Traffic Patterns: Race Through a Windshield: Squeegee Kids and You -- 4. Till O.J. Do Us Part: Our Separate and Unequal Brushes with the Law -- 5. The Extraterrestrial's Guide to Hate -- 6. Killing the Conversation on Affirmative Action -- 7. Elvis Has Not Left the Building -- 8. Black? African American? European American? White? What's in Our Names? -- 9. Congratulations! You're Ethnic! -- 10. "Hey, Yo!": Black Talk, White Talk, and the Color of Speech -- 11. "Black" Jokes, Polish Jokes, and George Jefferson: Who Are We Laughing At? -- 12. A State of Being Sorry -- 13. The Black Ambassador -- 14. Are You Calling Me a Racist? -- 15. Race to Nowhere: The Ten Worst Racial Ideas of Black, and White, Americans.".
- catalog title "Race manners : navigating the minefield between Black and White Americans / Bruce A. Jacobs.".
- catalog type "Life skills guides. fast".
- catalog type "text".