American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass

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Summary: What a waste of paper
Review: After having to read this book for a race and ethnic class, and I can't help but wonder why anyone would read this on their own. While it does contain a few interesting facts, it still remains that the book was incredibly difficult to read because of the way the author(s) dragged sentences on, used "big" words in places where they were not appropriate. Do yourself a favor, and read anything besides this because I have found textbooks much more interesting than this read.

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Summary: A Peice of Crap
Review: I am sorry, but when I was reading this, It did not catch my attention, but rather put me to sleep. I am a college professor, and my students have written better papers than this. Have fun reading it if you want to fall a sleep. If you can't sleep, pick up this book

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Summary: Piece of Crap?
Review: I have found that this book is extremelly helpful when writing a research paper. It is an easy read and an insightful work. I would not rely to much on what the previous "Professor" commented on. Though he/she is a professor they can't put a decent sentance together or spell.

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Summary: Piece of Crap?
Review: I have found that this book is extremelly helpful when writing a research paper. It is an easy read and an insightful work. I would not rely to much on what the previous "Professor" commented on. Though he/she is a professor they can't put a decent sentance together or spell.

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Summary: Some questions for a few of you out there
Review: I would like to know what you guys think the consequences are of American Apartheid, and how it has come to be.

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Summary: Wow
Review: I, too, read this for an ethnicity class. I found it to be very informative and repeatedly found that I was saying to myself "Wow, I never noticed that, that's right!" Granted, it's fairly academic writing but I don't think it's written beyond the level of an average reader. If you're interested in the topic it raises some ideas that aren't talked about in a lot of places.

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Summary: Response to "dead wrong" in California
Review: In response to "dead wrong" in California; if you are an example of the pinnacle of evolution driven advancement I pray for the cultural lives of my unborn children.

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Summary: Dead wrong bias
Review: OK there is a lot of relevant and interesting sociological data in this book. BUT the underlying bias of the book is one of the most dangerous and harmful ideas, and this is why I cannot give more than one star to this book. Their bias is that apartheid is wrong! This means they want races to mix up, bringing back humanity to hundreds of thousand years back in time, before the human racial evolutionary differenciation began! Loosing hundreds of thousands of years of evolution is the biggest waste and mistake I can think of! It would take such an (in human time-scale) extremely long time to get back to the current evolutionary point. This book is very dangerous for humanity, I cannot give it more than one star and do not recommend it.

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Summary: Torture
Review: This book is more painful to read than Germinal or the pornographic The Rehnquist Choice. But everyone should try. Its story of how white America has kept its residential neighborhoods white since the 1920's -- from simply murdering blacks trying to move in through restrictive deed covenants to pervasive real estate agent ruses -- needed telling succinctly. It is an appalling story. Revolting is the book's description of the apartheid conditions in which a large fraction of American blacks are still living in a small number of well-delineated urban areas around the country.

John Dean's book says Nixon in the early 1970's required that his three Supreme Court appointees, of whom Rehnquist was the third, be "right" on the race-residential question. Doubtless white racists who could afford to put their children in private schools, and less favored ones who attacked busing more directly, presently find non-discriminatory residential housing unacceptable. American Apartheid shows what that continuing attitude -- now evidently enshrined as part of Democracy As We Know It -- has exacerbated.

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Summary: Outstanding and important book
Review: This is the most important book explaining the causes of African-American disadvantage in the U.S. today. Packed with data and argumentation, it documents the devastating impact of residential segregation on African-American socioeconomic prospects. One of the best features of the book is the way it subsumes other prominant explanations of African-American disadvantage--for example, William J. Wilson's spatial-mismatch hypothesis, and "culture of poverty"/"black cultural pathology" theories--within its theoretical framework.