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Book SynopsisThis book is about race and racial inequality. If you can answer the question, “What is race and how does it impact our society?” then you don’t need to read this book. If you are looking for an upfront, practical, and no-nonsense guide to understanding race, then this book is for you. Just mention race or racism in any conversation and people become nervous, defensive, or possibly even angry. So You Think You Know All About Race informs, educates, and most importantly, introduces a fresh, meaningful conversation on why it is important to understand what race is and why racism still occurs today.
Trade ReviewMargaret Andersen’s Getting Smart about Race is a roadmap for the substantive and constructive conversation about race we say we need to have. With the first sentence and one thoughtful question, she unsettles the racial landscape...But she doesn’t just discuss the problem, she offers a way for us to discover the shared humanity which must be the foundation for racial healing in the United States of America. -- Jeffrey Blount, Emmy-award winning television director and author of The Emancipation of Evan Walls
In a clear, elegant, and thorough way, Margaret Andersen makes us all `smart about race’. She tells us what race, racism, and prejudice are, their effects in society, and what we can do to change the racial order of things. Getting Smart about Race will help advance our national dialogue about the continuing significance of race. -- Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University; author of Racism Without Racists
