How widespread is racism? Is it confined to the high-profile acts we read about in the papers, or does it seep into our everyday actions? In Say It Loud, Annie Barnes has interviewed nearly 200 black men and women, mostly college students from middle-class families, to find out what their experiences of racism have been. She has woven their stories into a gripping narrative that explores the pressures and pain faced by young black men and women in their daily lives -- going shopping, going to school, working, encounters with the police -- and how they have handled these experiences. Barnes adds to their accounts some simple yet profound ideas on what black parents and young people -- and sympathetic whites as well -- can do personally to counter acts of racism.
The title of this small book does not speak to the amount of relevant material it contains. The subject of racism as it is witnessed by real people is seldom discussed or written about unless the person is a celebrity. This book speaks to the commonman/woman about situations that most people of color have faced atone time or another if you are living in America. This book shouldbe in the curriculum of all colleges and universities to stimulatehonest and frank discussions of the most prevalent of all diseases.
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