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April 2005
288 pages ISBN: 0465017193 Hardcover
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The acclaimed "hip-hop intellectual" exposes the raw nerve
of class and generational warfare in black America with this
provocative defense of impoverished African Americans Nothing exposed the class and generational divide in black
America more starkly than Bill Cosby's now-infamous assault
on the black poor when he received an NAACP award in the
spring of 2004. The comedian-cum-social critic lamented the
lack of parenting, poor academic performance, sexual
promiscuity, and criminal behavior among what he called the
"knuckleheads" of the African-American community. Even more
surprising than his comments, however, was the fact that his
audience laughed and applauded. Best-selling writer, preacher, and scholar Michael Eric
Dyson uses the Cosby brouhaha as a window on a growing
cultural divide within the African-American community.
According to Dyson, the "Afristocracy" -lawyers, physicians,
intellectuals, bankers, civil rights leaders, entertainers,
and other professionals-looks with disdain upon the black
poor who make up the "Ghettocracy" -single mothers on
welfare, the married, single, and working poor, the
incarcerated, and a battalion of impoverished children.
Dyson explains why the black middle class has joined
mainstream America to blame the poor for their troubles,
rather than tackling the systemic injustices that shape
their lives. He exposes the flawed logic of Cosby's diatribe
and offers a principled defense of the wrongly maligned
black citizens at the bottom of the social totem pole.
Displaying the critical prowess that has made him the
nation's preeminent spokesman for the hip-hop generation,
Dyson challenges us all-black and white-to confront the
social problems that the civil rights movement failed to solve.
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