Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism

From the Publisher

"[C]ommendable in important respects. [Armour] points out problems in the theory of rational racial discrimination that many of its proponents ignore or overlook."

-Randall Kennedy, Los Angeles Times Book Review

"A patient meditation."

-The Nation,

"A crucial book, at a critical time, just as white America is gradually coming to understand the hidden travails of African American life."

-Bookwatch,

"Skillfully drawing on a wide range of referents from Greek mythology to Thomas Byes, the father of statistics, Armour plumbs our racial psychology and in the process explores the racialized nature of our daily life and our legal system."

-Norfolk Virginia Journal and Guide,

Randall Kennedy

[C]ommendable in important respects. [Armour] points out problems in the theory of rational racial discrimination that many of its proponents ignore or overlook.
— Los Angeles Times Book Review

Booknews

A provocative analysis of racial stereotypes disseminating crime statistics and the media presentation of African American crime to reveal a bias that taxes the black community and prohibits true racial understanding. Armour (law, U. of Pittsburgh) details the presuppositions which white and black Americans assume in their daily lives, suggesting specific ways to overcome the unconscious discrimination and negative responses that sap vital resources in the African American community and bewilder white America. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Bookwatch

A crucial book, at a critical time, just as white America is gradually coming to understand the hidden travails of African American life.

The Nation

A patient meditation.

Norfolk Virginia Journal

Skillfully drawing on a wide range of referents from Greek mythology to Thomas Byes, the father of statistics, Armour plumbs our racial psychology and in the process explores the racialized nature of our daily life and our legal system.