Interracial America: Opposing Viewpoints (Opposing Viewpoints)

Rating:
Summary: a little choppy, but okay
Review: This book is part of a long series of point-counterpoint essays ranging from pornography to immigration to developing nations. So many books either talk about desegregation alone, mixed-race marriages alone, or multiracial children alone. This book brings all those themes together under the interracial label. The essays in this book are short. In fact, some are quite choppy. They are mostly reprints from magazines and oftentimes the title in this anthology does not fairly represent the words of the specific contributors. Still, this book has some well-known, excellent writers here. For people sensitive about racial mixing, the point-counterpoint approach may be painful: you have been warned. Still, this was a good introductory book for people, especially young students, to start thinking about various race-related issues. I would have edited this anthology much differently, but it's still a kiind okay book.

Rating:
Summary: a little choppy, but okay
Review: This book is part of a long series of point-counterpoint essays ranging from pornography to immigration to developing nations. So many books either talk about desegregation alone, mixed-race marriages alone, or multiracial children alone. This book brings all those themes together under the interracial label. The essays in this book are short. In fact, some are quite choppy. They are mostly reprints from magazines and oftentimes the title in this anthology does not fairly represent the words of the specific contributors. Still, this book has some well-known, excellent writers here. For people sensitive about racial mixing, the point-counterpoint approach may be painful: you have been warned. Still, this was a good introductory book for people, especially young students, to start thinking about various race-related issues. I would have edited this anthology much differently, but it's still a kiind okay book.