God I wanted this to be good, I really,really did. And I slogged through it having to stop every chapter or so and bitch about something to my fiancee...Was it wasted time?
Meh.
I hate it when books could have been so much more. Maybe I'm not framing in the context of when it was written and when the research would have taken place. Book came out in 2000 so we're looking at research in the late 90's. Ok , seeing as my hometown was one of the places she did go to I can see that. Houston did and still does have serious issues with race. But, and I was backed on this by some other people that read it as well, the book was too heavily weighted on african american opinion, very little information was culled from ANY other racial group...Hispanics maybe had three mentions, little or no asian, no middle eastern, carib...I mean if we're talking racial divides let us be fair.
There's definately some headnodders in it, she makes good points and gave me some insight into some behavoirs but ultimately I was unimpressed.
Waste of a good night, I should have crocheted something instead.
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