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Summary: A Must Read For All Parents Of African American Males
Review: As a mother who has raised one AA male and currently going through the volatile teenaged years with my second son, this book has enlightened me. I wish I had access to this book and others on the subject of raising AA children at my disposal when they were toddlers. The earlier in the childs life that his parents' reads this book the better off he will be.
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Summary: A Must Read For All Parents Of African American Males
Review: As a mother who has raised one AA male and currently going through the volatile teenaged years with my second son, this book has enlightened me. I wish I had access to this book and others on the subject of raising AA children at my disposal when they were toddlers. The earlier in the childs life that his parents' reads this book the better off he will be.
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Summary: GRAT BOK
Review: Do you all remember Sagat's song from the early 1990s called "Why is that?" Well this book is just a written version of that. Every other sentence is a rhetorical question, rather than a comment or analysis. This book is just a huge series of statistics showing that Kunjufu can only cite other people's studies and he really does little that is fresh or original. This book, in many ways, is supposed to be the sequel to the early 1980s book about black boys in the education system. But since that time, many books have come out about black men that are far superior to this book. Books by Devon Carbrado and Don Belton are examples. This book is paranoid. Kunjufu never admits the male and straight privilege that most black men have. To him, brothas are only victims. Almost the only good thing about this book is the beautiful sculpture on the cover. Because radicals and liberals are condemned for always criticizing but never constructing, Kunjufu presents some solutions. However, they are pretty impractical. For example, Kunjufu suggests that we could barter more (trading work for shelter, etc.). Well, what landlord or landlady is going to allow that in the new millenium? But Derrick Bell's solutions are not that feasible either. I don't blame a brotha for being creative. Kunjufu notes that many black men are illiterate. Perhaps that's why his book is written in such a simplistic style. Maybe that is why it's so repetitive. There are greater black male writers out there (Dyson, West, Gates, Harris). And there are definitely better texts out there.
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Summary: First-rate topic, second-rate book
Review: Do you all remember Sagat's song from the early 1990s called "Why is that?" Well this book is just a written version of that. Every other sentence is a rhetorical question, rather than a comment or analysis. This book is just a huge series of statistics showing that Kunjufu can only cite other people's studies and he really does little that is fresh or original. This book, in many ways, is supposed to be the sequel to the early 1980s book about black boys in the education system. But since that time, many books have come out about black men that are far superior to this book. Books by Devon Carbrado and Don Belton are examples. This book is paranoid. Kunjufu never admits the male and straight privilege that most black men have. To him, brothas are only victims. Almost the only good thing about this book is the beautiful sculpture on the cover. Because radicals and liberals are condemned for always criticizing but never constructing, Kunjufu presents some solutions. However, they are pretty impractical. For example, Kunjufu suggests that we could barter more (trading work for shelter, etc.). Well, what landlord or landlady is going to allow that in the new millenium? But Derrick Bell's solutions are not that feasible either. I don't blame a brotha for being creative. Kunjufu notes that many black men are illiterate. Perhaps that's why his book is written in such a simplistic style. Maybe that is why it's so repetitive. There are greater black male writers out there (Dyson, West, Gates, Harris). And there are definitely better texts out there.
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Summary: black men
Review: how could we have increased our penal population from 100,000 to 1.4 million?i agree with kunjufu that this is a state of emergency.every african american needs to read this book and get involved to save our men.
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Summary: White, but open minded....
Review: I just ordered this book in hopes of educating myself on the African American struggle. I have not received the book as of yet, but want to encourage other white American's to open their minds in hopes that together we can overcome racial disparities. krastonscott@hotmail.com
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Summary: White, but open minded....
Review: I just ordered this book in hopes of educating myself on the African American struggle. I have not received the book as of yet, but want to encourage other white American's to open their minds in hopes that together we can overcome racial disparities. krastonscott@hotmail.com
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Summary: Saving African American Males
Review: State of Emergency offers a bold, provocative, and uncompromising critique of America's treatment of black men and boys. This timely book not only asks crucial questions, it also provides insightful answers to some of the more baffling disparities that occur between African Americans (especially males) and others in American society. It asks, for example, "How do we reconcile that African Americans are 13 percent of drug users, but 35 percent of those arrested for drug possession, 55 percent of those convicted, and 74 percent of those sentenced?" The disturbing (but credible) conclusion Jawanza Kunjufu reaches is that African American males are fodder for the penal system. He argues that prisons are big business and are growing at the rate of about 25 percent annually. Because much of the private sector sees how profitable providing goods and services to the government can be, the prison-industrial complex continues to grow, and the proportion of African American men involved with the criminal (in)justice system keeps increasing, despite declines in the crime rate. From the outset, Kunjufu makes the case that Black America should declare a state of emergency. He asserts that there are several conditions that would lead to the declaration of a state of emergency if they were to occur in the United States' white community: (1) if one of every three white males were involved in the penal system; (2) if 80 percent of the white children in special education classes were male; (3) if there were three white females for every one white male on college campuses; (4) if white women had the life expectancy of African American males; (5) if one of every 12 white males in Washington, D.C., were a victim of homicide; (6) if 31 percent of white males in Alabama and Florida were permanently disenfranchised; (7) if 14 percent of white males nationwide were temporarily disenfranchised; (8) if AIDS were the number one killer of white males; (9) if whites were 13 percent of the population, but comprised 35 percent of drug arrests, 55 percent of drug convictions, and 74 percent of drug prisoners; (10) if whites comprised 17 percent of drivers on the Maryland state highway, but 70 percent of drivers stopped by the police; (11) if prosecutors sought the death penalty 70 percent of the time when a white person killed an African American, but only 19 percent of the time when it was reversed; (12) if 40 percent of white males were illiterate in America; (13) if whites were 13 percent of the population, but 50 percent of those waiting on death row; (14) if whites were 13 percent of the population, but 67 percent of the juveniles in adult courts and 77 percent of the juveniles in adult prisons; (15) if seven of every ten white babies were born out of wedlock; and (16) if whites represented 84 percent of the crack cocaine convictions, and if two of every three white males were projected to be involved in the penal system by 2020. Kunjufu then not only shows that these conditions are true for African Americans, but he provides compelling explanations of why they are true and what can be done to change these circumstances. This book is an eye-opener. More than just a recounting of the well-known problems in the African American community, State of Emergency offers an indictment of America's discriminatory practices which allow such conditions to fester. While the book could use better documentation for some of its claims and arguments, it is a worthy book for readers who want a critical perspective on the African American experience in the United States.
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Summary: GRAT BOK
Review: THEES BOOK ES GUT MON , I BE READIN' AND THINKIN JEA JEA IS GUT.
IT BE SO DEEP I BE GETTING LOST IN THE SUBWAY AFTER WORK.
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Summary: fatherlessness
Review: this book needs to be read by all fathers.it makes no sense that 68% of black children are not living with their fathers.
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