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Summary: Not quite my style, but...
Review: This book provides a wealth of amusing facts and trivia, but little in the way of higher truths (can racism point to a higher truth?) or tools that were helpful or empowering. I was hoping that this book would provide humorous stress relief. I laughed, but reading page after page of ridiculous but maddening examples of racism in our culture disturbed me and made me more stressed. I wish I could have flipped through it before purchasing, because I'm not sure if I would have bought this normally. But, this is one of the more interesting, and perhaps in a weird way important, books I read this year.
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Summary: Off the books this year
Review: I gotta tell you, son, this is the shizzy. So go & pick it up while I finish reading this beauty and write a review in a couple of weeks - see you all then Excelcior, T. Bawno
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Summary: A must-read for hip-hop fans & those who wanna know!
Review: i haven't read the book in it's entirety, but if you liked Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists then this one is also for you: to me, this is what real hip hop is supposed to be about: having the ...[courage] to speak your mind about real issues; not just about the girls, the sex and the bling bling; it's about the stuff that's been in your face for years that you were wondering about when you were growing up but never talked about...and it's funny as hell! i always wondered why black people never went near the water and who knew that Wonder Woman was half-Mexican! I am truly enlightened by this book. This is the truth people: read it! Mad props to the Egotrip staff, or should i say 'kudos'!
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Summary: Better Than Harry Potter!
Review: I went from Harry Potter to the "Big Book of Racism." As far as I'm concerned, the Slitherins are punks compared to the Ego Trip guys. I read this book for hours on end. It's better than Cracked and Mad magazines combined.
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Summary: whoah
Review: I went from Harry Potter to the "Big Book of Racism." As far as I'm concerned, the Slitherins are punks compared to the Ego Trip guys. I read this book for hours on end. It's better than Cracked and Mad magazines combined.
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Summary: Better Than Harry Potter!
Review: I went from Harry Potter to the "Big Book of Racism." As far as I'm concerned, the Slitherins are punks compared to the Ego Trip guys. I read this book for hours on end. It's better than Cracked and Mad magazines combined.
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Summary: Wow- a true culture gemstone
Review: I, like many other watchers (not really active participants anymore) of cool, cutting edge culture, pride myself on staying in the loop on underground and mainstream happenings. And little truly impresses me, especially attempts at documenting the history of modern cultural trends. But, ..., this book blows me away. Not only is it smart, biting, and thick but it is also more thorough than Israeli airport security. I am amazed at the work and effort put into this book. This is some definitive work right here-- a modern day history book. You must have this. Morons will like the easy listsand graphics. Smarties will like that stuff too but, oh, so much more
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Summary: superior race book
Review: If you are of any race, you must read this book. It applies to you. It is awesome!
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Summary: Worth a Look
Review: This book is a frank & funny discussion on how race is lived from decidedly hip-hop perspective. It is a collection of lists, cartoons and essays published to skewer ALMOST every color of the rainbow. For the most part, it does a pretty good job. The section devoted to sports was definitely the most thought provoking and informative, while the rest of the book was pretty hit ("Fear of a Black Pool Party" & the dictionary of new coined ethnic slurs) OR miss (the majority of the section on Asians was pretty weakly written, sorry y'all.) I think the book could have been improved if the female perspective wasn't limited to one short piece on hair. For all the talk about what's wrong with everybody, women writers are almost completely left out. Except for a few scattered lists of women the writers found attractive (Brooke 'Doll Parts' Burke? Oh please!), this pop culture reference book doesn't have much to offer the ladies. All in all I think the book is worth a look, it's far from perfect but still pretty entertaining.
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Summary: whoah
Review: Very rarely does a book come along that can discuss something like race in a realistic manner... but, somehow this book does it. by being both tongue-in-cheek ("items in a chinese person's house not worth stealing") and deadly serious (listing various race incidents accross america from colonial times to the present on a state by state basis) this book actually delivers what it promises: a complete encyclopedia on race. By constantly mixing up it's tone and presentation (from dense factually based text to humorous cartoons), it manages to encompass so many viewpoints. Some of the things listed ("why hispanics steal?")are on that fine edge between parody and truth: are they kidding or are these the type of things that people may think but only say when drunk in the company of friends? As someone who is always glad to see the unspeakable said, I believe Ego Trip is operating in the tradition of Lenny Bruce: by speaking these thoughts and words, you are bringing them out into the open and thus demystifying them. Basically, race in america is a COMPLICATED issue to say the least. By coming at it from so many angles (and by always keeping a sense of humor), the authors may just come close to the truth.
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