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Blacked Out: Dilemmas of Race, Identity and Success at Capital High. - book reviews

by Antoine M. Garibaldi , June 23, 2007

 

Hopefully those who read "Blacked Out" will focus less on these adolescents' strategy to avoid "acting white" and devote more time and energy to formulating effective strategies to counteract the individual and group resistance which prevents too many African Americans from achieving their full potential.

Black Issues In Higher Education Top Ten Books on Campus
 
 
 
                                                   Weeks     Last
 
                                                  On List   Position
 
 
 
1. AND THIS TOO SHALL PASS                          19        1
 
E. Lynn Harris -- Anchor/Doubleday, $23.95
 
 
 
2. WHEN DEATH COMES STEALING                        30        2
 
Valerie Wilson Wesley --
 
G.P. Putnam & Sons, $5.99
 
 
 
3. COFFEE WILL MAKE YOU BLACK                       20        4
 
April Sinclair -- Avon, $10
 
 
 
4. SOUL VIBRATIONS                                   4        5
 
George Davis and Gilda Matthews --
 
Quill/William Morrow, $10
 
 
 
5. AINT'T GONNA BE THE SAME FOOL TWICE               2        -
 
April Sinclair -- Hyperion, $19.95
 
 
 
6. BLACK SUN SIGNS: AFRICAN AMERICAN                 2        -
 
GUIDE TO THE ZODIC
 
Thelma Balfour -- Fireside/Simon & Schuster, $11
 
 
 
7. WAITING TO EXHALE                                28        1
 
Terry McMillan -- Pocket Books, $6.99
 
 
 
8. WILD EMBERS                                       4        6
 
Anita Richmond Bunkley -- Signer, $5.99
 
 
 
9. NEVER SATISFIED: HOW AND WHY MEN CHEAT           30        7
 
Michael Baisden -- Legacy Publishing, $13.95
 
 
 
10. HOW TO MARRY A BLACKMAN
 
Monique Jellerette Dejongh &                         2        -
 
Cassandra Cato-Lewis -- Doubleday, $16.95
 
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