Yet a Stranger: Why Black Americans Still Don't Feel at Home
by Deborah Mathis
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Author: Deborah MathisEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2002-06
ISBN: 0446526363
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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Book Review: SHOULD BE REQUIRED READING FOR EVERY WHITE PERSON
Summary: 5 Stars
Most white people that I know don't get it. They just can't imagine what it's like to have their car stopped and be arrested for being black. They can't imagine what it's like to be followed around in a department store by a member of the security staff. They can't imagine what it's like to have their kids blamed for altercations regardless of who started it. They can't imagine what it feels like to always get the worst assignments on the job. They've never heard of the concept of unearned privilege of which they are the invisible beneficiaries.
"Yet a Stranger: Why Black Americans Still Don't Feel at Home" makes sure the reader, if he or she didn't get it before, gets it now. It obliges readers to take a cold empathy bath in the humiliating everyday experiences of Black Americans. For that reason, it is not an easy read and not a fun read if you're white. After reading this book, we no longer have the excuse that, well, we just didn't know, we just didn't realize that here in the 21st century things were still so much more difficult for Black Americans than for us. The implicit challenge of the book is: now that we know and can no longer plead ignorance, what are we going to do with that knowledge? How are we going to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem?
This book makes no attempt to be even-handed. Unlike Senator Barack Obama's recent speech on race, there is no section on white grievances and frustations and no Cosby-like admonitions for the black community to address and solve its own problems. Those topics, while important, are not what this book is about. Its target audience is us white folks, and its objective is helping us to lift the veil of our ignorance through an experience of empathy.
Deborah Mathis has written a painfully graphic, valuable book. But published in 2002, ancient history in the publishing industry, its light is under a bushel basket. Too bad. This book should be required reading for every white person, young and old. How else will we get it?
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