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Title: The Good Black: A True Story of Race in America by Paul M. Barrett ISBN: 0-452-27859-7 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: January, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.52 (23 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A painfully true story
Comment: I am a partner in a major law firm in Atlanta. I was an associate at Powell Goldstein when Larry was there. I think that the author did an excellent job of introducing the reader to Larry. When I read the book, at times, I could hear Larry saying the things that he said in the book.
While reading this book, it was extremely difficult for me to control my emotions because the author was able to capture the hurt and the pain that many African American attorneys feel when they practice in a large, white, law firm. Almost all of the incidents described in the book have happened to me or someone else who is similarly situated, including "incidents" involving African American partners.
The title appropriately characterizes the feeling that all of us have had at some point, that if we just do the right thing, go to the right schools, wear the right clothes and speak the king's english, we will be the exception, the good black. Usually along the way, we figure out that it just doesn't matter.
I would highly recommend this book, especially to young lawyers who may be feeling isolated in their experiences at the major law firms or corporations.
Rating: 5
Summary: As entertaining as it is instructive about law and race.
Comment: When you are as skeptical and cynical as I am, it is rare that you recommend anything to anyone. However, in this instance I felt compelled to pass along some thoughts on this book.
The book is about an African-American man, named Lawrence Mungin, who rose from his inner-city beginnings to earn double degrees from Harvard University, and practice law at some of America's most esteemed corporate law firms. Ultimately, he ends up suing a large Chicago firm for race discrimination, notwithstanding having spent his life resolutely subscribing to the belief that he was a "human being first, an American second, and a black third." The book is not only a great court room drama, but, more importantly, a poignant insight into both the obtuse management of large law firms and the opposing views of racism in middle-class America.
Among the many interesting twists in the book is that Paul Barrett was Larry Mungin's roommate at Harvard Law School. That Mr. Barrett is able to tell as objective a story as he did is as unlikely as it is instructive.
This book, I think, will come to be regarded as an important piece of work in American race-relation scholarship, for it serves as a warning that the most insidious kind of racism can sometimes be that which is the least perceptible.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good book, but how compelling is it?
Comment: As one interested in the law, I really enjoyed this book. But I also found it hard to empathize with the author. I agree that a lot of discrimination within the workplace still exists in the United States, but much of this book came across to me as "whining" why the other guy (who happens to be white) makes 115,000 a year, while he (the black author) "only" makes 95,000 a year. Discrimination? Perhaps, but he is still better off (regardless of if he'll ever make partner at some firm or not) than the vast majority of Americans, or people across the world for that matter. "The Good Black" is just another chapter in America's continuing struggle with race.
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Title: Diversity Consciousness: Opening Our Minds to People, Cultures, and Opportunities by Richard D. Bucher ISBN: 0130803383 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 23 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (W.E.B. Du Bois Lectures) by Glenn C. Loury ISBN: 0674006259 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Buffalo Creek Disaster: How the Survivors of One of the Worst Disasters in Coal-Mining History Brought Suit Against the Coal Company--And Won by Gerald M. Stern ISBN: 0394723430 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: March, 1977 List Price(USD): $10.20 |
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Title: The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter ISBN: 0375712925 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 27 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken ISBN: 0525947647 Publisher: E P Dutton Pub. Date: 29 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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