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Summary: Oh if 0 stars were an option!
Review: This book is an insult to African-American women-both rich and poor-painting us as materialistic. Worse, our soul purpose in life? Landing a husband. The book strives to be witty and tongue-in-cheek, but is poorly executed; leaving me to ponder: perhaps the writers should have spent less time shopping and husband-hunting in college and more time attending English classes. Many of the famous BAP's listed are bound to be offended, and with good reason: their names are often misspelled. Contrived, mean-spirited, and full of typos, The BAP Handbook fails to bring insight into a fascinating African-American subculture. Instead, it reveals authors that are shallow, and self-indulgent. Since the women who wrote this book are "BAP's", they obviously don't need your money. Do yourself a favor and save it.
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Summary: Fabulous, Humorous, Delightful
Review: The book was entertaining and a pleasure to read! My one comment is to stress The Bap Handbook was not intended to provide a socio-economic dissertation on the Black experience nor was it intended to establish guidelines for the "socially acceptable". This book was simply written by four young women who have the ability to laugh and share their own experiences growing up as Black American Princesses.
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Summary: Commuter/Beach Reading
Review: What a fun quick read this was. I found this book delightfully funny and enjoyed all of it. It's for those folks that don't take themselves so woefully serious.I'm taking my copy to the Vineyard, so my friends can read it, too.
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Summary: This book should be named how to be shallow and a snob.
Review: I went to school with several BAPS and will never forget how amazingly cruel and insenstive these women can be. If your parents were not Doctors or Lawyers, if you did not belong to Jack and Jill or the Links cotillion you were unacceptable. Amazingly, they even picked their friends by their complexion. If you were extremely light with long straight hair then you could overcome these obstacles and be apart of the group. I know this book is meant to be funny but my school experience with these kind of women was definitely more of a tragedy than a comedy. Several of these women would not date men who did not have the proper lineage eventhough they had the drive and ambition to attend some of the best schools in the United States. I noticed that none of the authors have snagged "Mr.Right". Maybe, Mr.Right is looking for someone with a little bit more substance and character than the BAPS!
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Summary: Ironic
Review: This is a book about women with a sense of entitlement. Ironically, it comes from a segment of the population that has been receiving entitlements(welfare) for a long time. These so-called princesses have moved from one sense of entitlement to another. This is a book about HMBs, not princesses. White people call these 'daddies' girls' - girls who have never grown up and have arrived at adulthood with good looks due to genetics and some money due to Daddy. Usually they can trade in the looks to get a real man who actually worked his way up a ladder. In most cases, if these girls did go to fine schools, they majored in artsy nonsense. The University of Chicago(where one of the authors went) is one of the top schools in the world. It doesn't teach the superficial stuff in this book. The author got that elsewhere.
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Summary: Insulting
Review: I thought that this book was degrading. If you need an official guide doesn't that make you "Bogus"?
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Summary: A humorous book not to be taken seriously
Review: This satirical look at the lifestyles of Black American princesses or those who think they are (Bogus?) is a humorous and fun read. And should be interpreted as just that,a fun book to be read and taken with a grain of salt. Although this little book makes it clear who IS and who IS NOT, it is not a bible or even a guide to the upper class/middle class black women. Who would want to be known as being so shallow? Sure there are some truths regarding origins and status, but some of the reviewers here seem to be quite taken with identifying with these stereotypes to the point of putting down those who didn't grow up as a BAP. I guess these Bettys and Bohos look down their noses at the the Butterflies (let's not mention the Bogus), those who moved into BAPtitude through achievement and schooling. The distinction is made here between a BAP and a Buppie which is key point. Being a BAP is mainly about attitude. It was good to see a book of this type; there are certainly enough books about the negative aspects of black women in the media but I would like to see a stronger analysis with less emphasis on materialism and more on what they represent to the community (and better editing). The four women who wrote this are all accomplished women and it would be interesting to know their stories and how they became BAPS. This is a fun quick read to take on vacation this summer.
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Summary: Butterfly til I die
Review: I laughed aloud and read this in one night. I can now hand someone this book in response to: "Why are you LIKE that?" I am so not afraid of who I am and this book just boosts my ego that much more. Thank you ladies for being so on point about who we BAP's really are. I'm now on my way to the MAC store....
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Summary: What's not to enjoy?
Review: Despite a few typos, excluding SOME people's incorrect assertions concerning the proper spelling of Phillis Wheatley, this book was a blast! As a past Jack and Jill president and Heir-O-Link, this book took me back to the heady days of my suburban youth and the BAPs I knew. It's about time that we allowed ourselves to enjoy a satirically, self-indulgent look at a slice of our culture that falls outside the environs of the hood. I invite everyone to put away the editor's pen, decant a nice '86 French red and enjoy the company of these four delightful young ladies. Page after page, you'll be glad that you did...
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Summary: BAPs Are Here to Stay!
Review: This book is a great humorous expose! As a older almost retired BAP I can see we successfully passed down our way of life. Only the brand names have changed! I laughed and I gave it as gifts to several in the next generation.
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