Afraid of the Dark : What Whites and Blacks Need to Know about Each Other.

By: Myers, JimMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: ChiCANgo : Lawrence Hill Books, 2000Copyright date: ©2000Description: 1 online resource (362 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781569765869Subject(s): African Americans -- Attitudes | Racism -- United States | United States -- Race relations | Whites -- United States -- AttitudesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Afraid of the Dark : What Whites and Blacks Need to Know about Each OtherDDC classification: 305.800 LOC classification: E185.615 -- .M94 2000ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Front Cover -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Foreword by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. -- Introduction: What We Don't Know And Why Me? -- PART I WORLDS APART -- 1 What's the Problem? If We Could Just Be Friends -- 2 Trouble with Numbers: Why Can't We Count Straight? -- 3 The Color Line: The Partitioning of Our Minds -- 4 A Divided Landscape: Where We All Want to Be -- 5 Tuning Each Other Out: Segregation in the Information Age -- 6 In the Mirror: Do We Like What We See? -- 7 The Story Line: Good Guys and Bad Guys -- 8 Dogs and Monkeys: Tracking Our Worst Thoughts -- PART II CLOSE ENCOUNTERS -- 9 Discussing Race: Some Silence Isn't All That Golden -- 10 Slavery: Our Past Is Never That Far Away -- 11 Wild Ideas: Can You Believe This Stuff? -- 12 White Culture: The Ways of White Folks -- 13 Black Culture: The Ways of Black Folks -- 14 Women and Men: Does Size Make a Difference? -- 15 Heroes and Villains: What's Sports Got to Do with It? -- PART III CROSSING THE DIVIDE -- 16 Getting It Right: Give a Little, Get a Little -- 17 The Golden Rule: What About the Self-Evident? -- 18 What to Keep/What to Toss Away: Giving Good and Bad Ideas Their Due -- Back Cover.
Summary: The definitive guide for anyone who has contact with people of another race—in companies, schools, neighborhoods, or other social situations—this book asserts that race is not the unfathomable mystery it is usually made out to be. In a revealing, accessible, and stimulating discussion based on little-known facts and innovative research, this book explains why many whites are uneasy about blacks and how blacks react to this, why numerous blacks suspect the worst from whites, why white explanations don't hold up, why myths about sex remain so prevalent, and what both races can do together to make their relations better.
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Front Cover -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Foreword by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. -- Introduction: What We Don't Know And Why Me? -- PART I WORLDS APART -- 1 What's the Problem? If We Could Just Be Friends -- 2 Trouble with Numbers: Why Can't We Count Straight? -- 3 The Color Line: The Partitioning of Our Minds -- 4 A Divided Landscape: Where We All Want to Be -- 5 Tuning Each Other Out: Segregation in the Information Age -- 6 In the Mirror: Do We Like What We See? -- 7 The Story Line: Good Guys and Bad Guys -- 8 Dogs and Monkeys: Tracking Our Worst Thoughts -- PART II CLOSE ENCOUNTERS -- 9 Discussing Race: Some Silence Isn't All That Golden -- 10 Slavery: Our Past Is Never That Far Away -- 11 Wild Ideas: Can You Believe This Stuff? -- 12 White Culture: The Ways of White Folks -- 13 Black Culture: The Ways of Black Folks -- 14 Women and Men: Does Size Make a Difference? -- 15 Heroes and Villains: What's Sports Got to Do with It? -- PART III CROSSING THE DIVIDE -- 16 Getting It Right: Give a Little, Get a Little -- 17 The Golden Rule: What About the Self-Evident? -- 18 What to Keep/What to Toss Away: Giving Good and Bad Ideas Their Due -- Back Cover.

The definitive guide for anyone who has contact with people of another race—in companies, schools, neighborhoods, or other social situations—this book asserts that race is not the unfathomable mystery it is usually made out to be. In a revealing, accessible, and stimulating discussion based on little-known facts and innovative research, this book explains why many whites are uneasy about blacks and how blacks react to this, why numerous blacks suspect the worst from whites, why white explanations don't hold up, why myths about sex remain so prevalent, and what both races can do together to make their relations better.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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