Brainwashed : challenging the myth of Black inferiority / Tom Burrell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burrell, Tom.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Intellectual life.

African Americans.

African Americans--Social conditions.

African Americans--Attitudes.

African Americans--Race identity--United States.

Stereotypes (Social psychology)--United States.

Stereotypes (Social psychology).

African Americans--Race identity.

United States.

Social values--United States.

Social values.

Physical Description:

xvi, 285 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Brain washed

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Smiley Books ; Carlsbad, CA : Distributed by Hay House, 2010.

Summary:

In this powerful examination of "the greatest propaganda campaign of all time"--the masterful marketing of black inferiority, aka the BI Complex--Burrell poses ten disturbing questions that will make black people look in the mirror and ask why, nearly 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, so many blacks still think and act like slaves.

Contents:

The scorch at the bottom of the melting pot

Relationship wrecks : why can't we form strong families?

Studs and sluts : why do we conform to Black sexual stereotypes

Uglified : why are Black and beautiful still contradictions?

Homey-cide : why do we keep killing each other?

Slow suicide : why do we neglect body, mind, and spirit?

Buy now, pay later : why can't we stop shopping?

D's will do : why do we expect so little of each other

and ourselves?

Bred to be led : why do we so willingly give up control of our lives?

Diss-unity : why can't we stick together?

Neo-coons : why is the joke always on us?

Yes, we must! : healing from the inside out.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-283).

ISBN:

9781401925925

1401925928

OCLC:

316035530