| Contents |
Race plus rage equals ruin: race rules -- When you're a credit to your race, the bill will come due: O.J. Simpson and our trial by fire -- It's not what you know, it's how you show it: black public intellectuals -- When you divide body and soul, problems multiply: black church and sex -- We never were what we used to be: black youth, pop culture, and the politics of nostalgia -- Black folk lifted by their bootstraps should beware of heels: the state of black leadership -- Behind every great black woman, there are a hundred more: why black men should lighten up -- In a color-blind society we can only see black and white: why race will continue to rule. |
| Abstract |
A noted African American intellectual uses examples from the Black community to trace racism in American politics, media, society, and culture, criticizing the hypocrisy of white liberals and whites' myths of Black males. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Rare copy gift of Gene and Susan Roberts, 2016. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Dyson, Michael Eric. Race rules. 1st Vintage books ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1997 |
| LCCN | 97005433 |
| ISBN | 0679781560 |
| ISBN | 9780679781561 |
