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Title: The American Directory Of Certified: Uncle Toms by Richard Laurence, James B. Lowe ISBN: 1-930097-23-9 Publisher: Lushena Books Pub. Date: 03 March, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (9 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Daring Rebuke of Black Eurocentrists
Comment: The American Directory of Certified Uncle Toms is a well documented, scholarly, and witty critique of the most stridently Eurocentric elements of the Black community. The book clearly distinguishes between "enlightened Black interests"( economic, political and creative self-determination)and the practices of Black Eurocentrists(undermining grassroots Black leadership,justifying the suppressive staus quo, portraying our pathologies for financial gain, and minimal accountability to legitimate Black contituencies). Finally, we have a publication that takes on white liberalism, Black conservatism,pathological classism in our community, and an inordinate Zionist influence(the part where Ron Dellums was forced to have a family meeting because of a potential political backlash is particularly telling). While I may not agree with all entries, this book is essential in its value to Black people whether they like or not.
Rating: 5
Summary: Indicted and Convicted
Comment: Did the people who had a problem with this book read it? The analysis, the history, the nuanced perspective is devastating. Perhaps this is the trouble. The authors do not contend that "anybody who makes it is an Uncle Tom." Rather, the authors look at those of us who have been "allowed" to make it and examine their statements on the public record and their contributions, if any, to the race. Fair enough. To paraphrase Malcolm X, "you might not like their saying it, but you can't deny it."
I suspect that the other discomforting aspect of this book is the fact that black people are challenged to look at themselves and determine the ways in which they collaborate with the racist/capitalist system. I felt indicted and on a number of counts - convicted - by the author's, but happily so. Happily, because I hope to shed the self-hating, warped beliefs and behaviors that I hold and that, coincidentally, succor the horrific government we have in the US. The people who mistake a subtle, analytical work with a broad brush attack on successful black folk for being successful black folk are not being real.
Rating: 1
Summary: Same Old Story
Comment: Once again, we have the oldest trick in the book. A cheap way of getting the support of bitter and frustrated people by hurling blame at others and calling names (i.e., growing SOUR GRAPES). Simply another in a long line of rants to serve as an outlet for the bitter and semi-educated and collecting of cash by the clever by confusing the credulous.
The writers would have accomplished more by showing the readers how to defeat the ills they speak of and improve their condition rather than wastiing their obvious intellect in denigrating others. But hey, controversy sells.
BTW-In response to a previous poster, the Willie Lynch letter was a recent forgery, not a historical fact (see review for that book).
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Title: Pimps in the Pulpit by Herbert E., Jr. Brown, James A. Fox ISBN: 0963473832 Publisher: Instep Pub Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave by Kashif Malik Hassan-El ISBN: 0948390530 Publisher: Lushena Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: Breaking the Chains of Psychological Slavery by Na'Im Akbar, Na'im Akbar ISBN: 0935257055 Publisher: Mind Production & Assoc Pub. Date: August, 1996 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson ISBN: 086543171X Publisher: Africa World Press Pub. Date: January, 1990 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: A Right to Be Hostile: The Boondocks Treasury by Aaron McGruder, Michael Moore ISBN: 1400048575 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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