From: Jonathan Hunt <jhunt24>
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 03:13:13 +0000

I know this is off-topic, as it was discussed last month, but my hold on this title finally came through at my library, and I wanted to add these comments to my previously unelightened ones.

I liked this book very much, and it's easy to see why it's gotten so much popular and critical acclaim. The lack of documentation is unfortunate, and I believe the the problematic quotes Nina offered are both from the prologue section which tries to reduce the whole of African American history prior to the Civil Rights Movement to several pages (when that happens you're almost bound to get oversimplification, generalization, lack of cause and effect, etc.), but otherwise I thought it was a very strong book indeed. I just wanted to read more and more about this subject and wish the book had gone on even longer.

Jonathan
Received on Sat 08 Jan 2005 09:13:13 PM CST