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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
funny read! was not what i was expecting, though. i assumed it would be some sort of comic / anthology, but it really is a practical guide to racism. had be howling with laughter in public. best read with a grain of salt, as most of this book could cause offence outside of context.
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40 of 43 people found the following review helpful
Hilarious Parody of racial stereotypes
23 Jan 2008
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
My nephew who is in college had this item on his holiday gift list. When it was delivered to my mailbox, I flipped through it before gift wrapping it... and I was totally sucked in to this book! Everyone in our house passed this book around that night randomly selecting paragraphs or quotations to read aloud. We laughed at the silliness of it all.
The title makes it sound like it could be offensive - one of my initial thoughts, and the reason I started perusing the contents. If it is considered offensive, at least it offends everyone equally across the board. No group is exempt. It is actually based on a course about white supremacy taught by a college professor in the early 1900's - and then satirized to amplify how absolutely ridiculous and stupid bigots sound when they speak.
The gift was received with a lot of hugs and gratitude from my nephew who is sharing it with friends and colleagues.
The title makes it sound like it could be offensive - one of my initial thoughts, and the reason I started perusing the contents. If it is considered offensive, at least it offends everyone equally across the board. No group is exempt. It is actually based on a course about white supremacy taught by a college professor in the early 1900's - and then satirized to amplify how absolutely ridiculous and stupid bigots sound when they speak.
The gift was received with a lot of hugs and gratitude from my nephew who is sharing it with friends and colleagues.
31 of 34 people found the following review helpful
This book is so funny!!
8 Jan 2008
Format:Hardcover
In case you're worried that C.H. Dalton plays favorites, let me allay your concerns. Every race, gender, ethnicity and even species you can think of is skewered in this book. Dalton's comments are often as incisive as they are funny. At the end of the book you are left not only with a ton of laughs but also with a real feeling of the absurdity of racism.
36 of 42 people found the following review helpful
A Satiric Look at Racisms Old and New
11 Jan 2008
Format:Hardcover
A Practical Guide to Racism offers pitch-perfect satires of racism of every stripe. Humor of the Sarah Silverman variety is blended with Dadaist absurdism and its close sibling: the scientific racism of the nineteenth century (a helpful appendix compares the skulls of members of dozens of races to the skull of Friedrich Schiller). The blustery narrator Dalton parrots and exaggerates all of the brutish and inane things that men have ever said of one another. Not for the faint of heart, but then, as this book amply demonstrates, neither is real life.
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