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- Bill Kappel
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- Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
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- "Being Black"
- Summary: Allison Jones excels academically, but struggles with how her peers in her Brooklyn neighborhood pressure her for ?talking white.?
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Review of Being Black
Bill Kappel
Posted on December 24, 2006 at 02:47 PM
This piece provides insight into a central dilemma that faces our society. How to address that "nihilism" without condoning or simply taking a moralistic detachment from the problem of the disenfranchised black urban youth. It is a strong expression of individualism but the larger situation addressed is truely ambiguous and that might have been better expressed in the conclusion.