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Racism 101

Author: Nikki Giovanni
Publisher: New York : W. Morrow, ©1994.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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In Racism 101, Nikki Giovanni indicts higher education for the inequities it perpetuates, contemplates the legacy of the 1960s, provides a survival guide for black students on predominantly white campuses (complete with razor-sharp comebacks to the dumb questions constantly asked of black students), and excoriates Spike Lee while offering her own ideas for a film about Malcolm X. And that is just for starters. She
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Genre/Form: Biography
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Giovanni, Nikki.
Racism 101.
New York : W. Morrow, c1994
(OCoLC)622587759
Named Person: Nikki Giovanni
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Nikki Giovanni
ISBN: 0688043321 : 9780688043322
OCLC Number: 28632148
Description: 203 p. ; 22 cm.
Responsibility: Nikki Giovanni ; foreword by Virginia C. Fowler.

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In Racism 101, Nikki Giovanni indicts higher education for the inequities it perpetuates, contemplates the legacy of the 1960s, provides a survival guide for black students on predominantly white campuses (complete with razor-sharp comebacks to the dumb questions constantly asked of black students), and excoriates Spike Lee while offering her own ideas for a film about Malcolm X. And that is just for starters. She also writes about W.E.B. Du Bois, gardening, Toni.

Morrison, Star Trek, affirmative action, space exploration, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the role of griots, and the rape and neglect of urban schools. But to reduce Nikki Giovanni's essays to their subjects is to miss altogether their significance. As Virginia C. Fowler writes in her Foreword, "These pieces are artistic expressions of a particular way of looking at the world, featuring a performing voice capable of dizzying displays of virtuosity." Profoundly.

personal and blisteringly political, angry and funny, lyrical and blunt, Racism 101 will add an important chapter to the debate on American national values.

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