In Search of Black America HB Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

In Search of Black America HB Book

If you watch the news, it is possible to misconstrue African Americans as an undereducated, hyperathletic, and jail-prone demographic group residing largely in urban areas. This is precisely the kind of cliché that journalist David J. Dent seeks to undermine in his thought-provoking In Search of Black America. In his travels across the U.S., Dent found that, contrary to popular opinion, African Americans are a complex group of people with a myriad of opinions, viewpoints, and beliefs. "While diversity and multiculturalism within the African American community are rich, there are still some common threads running throughout it," Dent writes. In 1993, he began his five-year mission to seek out these common threads and to meet the people behind the statistics. What emerges are the hopes, plans, triumphs, and failures of a people, as well as a close look at America in general. Dent reveals himself as an informed and enlightening travel companion. --Eugene Holley Jr.Read More

from£18.71 | RRP: £25.00
* Excludes Voucher Code Discount Also available Used from £7.03
  • Product Description

    Exposing myths and exploding stereotypes, In Search of Black America is a landmark work that looks at the lives of African Americans throughout the United States. David Dent, a noted journalist and professor, set out on a cross-country road trip into the heart of black America with stops in Detroit; Washington, D.C.; Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Gallipolis, Ohio; Seattle, Washington; Hampton, Virginia; and many other places, including Lawnside, New Jersey, a historically black town with strong roots and ties to the Underground Railroad.

    This book is the result of his five-year odyssey, which took him and his tape recorder to upscale art galleries, schools, bowling alleys, formal balls, college campuses, fishing trips, mansions, summer homes, ranches, rodeos, and many more places -- well off the beaten path. What he discovered not only contradicts most of the common stereotypes about black America prevalent in today's popular media but uncovers new truths about African-Americana.

    Drawing from hundreds of hours of taped interviews and keen journalistic observation, Dent uncovers the widespread diversity of the lives of the black majority -- middle- and upper-middle-class African Americans. Along the way, Dent encounters a most eclectic and insightful array of characters. Through their lives, he not only examines and questions the most common American beliefs about race and politics but also explores issues that go beyond race and touch on social and moral questions that Americans of any hue confront.

    All of Dent's subjects share at least one thing: They park pieces of their lives in what Dent calls secluded spaces of black culture. Few are separatists but most are profoundly ambivalent -- yet often hopeful for a future America free of racial inequality and social injustice.

    Candid and honest, controversial and pragmatic, In Search of Black America is written with journalistic fervor, and will change the way people view this piece of America that is often over-looked and little understood.

  • 0684810727
  • 9780684810720
  • Dent
  • 1 February 2000
  • Simon & Schuster
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 416
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. If you click through any of the links below and make a purchase we may earn a small commission (at no extra cost to you). Click here to learn more.

Would you like your name to appear with the review?

We will post your book review within a day or so as long as it meets our guidelines and terms and conditions. All reviews submitted become the licensed property of www.find-book.co.uk as written in our terms and conditions. None of your personal details will be passed on to any other third party.

All form fields are required.