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The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse (2008)

by Richard Thompson Ford(Favorite Author)

3.62 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0374245754 (ISBN13: 9780374245757)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Farrar Straus Giroux

review 1: But the race card is an impediment to dealing with these problems. It distracts attention from larger social injustices. It encourages vindictiveness and provokes defensiveness when open-mindedness and sympathy are needed. It leads to an adversarial, tit-for-tat mindset when a cooperative spirit of dialogue is required.p 349outlawing any and all consideration of race in order to stop racism is a bit like outlawing umbrellas because you don't like rain. p 334This is not about racism, it’s about discrimination. Racism is wrong, discrimination is not… Trouble comes in all shapes and sizes, and when you’re on your own, you have to be discriminating for the sake of your own well being.p 68
review 2: I really wanted to read this book. I attended a talk abo... moreut it at Foothill College through the Author Series, and that is how I came to know of the book. I found the book very dense, but I found that I finally understood the author's points at the end, so I would say that the conclusion was very well done. It is hard to walk the line between anecdotes that make the book readable and losing the overall message, so I was glad that the conclusion was clear (at least to me). I think that this is a very important book, and I learned a lot from it. I would recommend it to anyone who wants to know more about the current state of race in America. less

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