Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind? 444 in Literary Fiction ISBN-10 : 1619029227

ISBN-10 : 1619029227

Voices from the Continent will be a useful resource for college professors and teachers of English and social studies on the high school level who seek to diversify the standard curriculum by introducing students to modern African literature written or translated into English

to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded

ISBN-13 : 9781936070961

Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind? 444 in Literary Fiction ISBN-10 : 1619029227Nothing exposed the class and generational divide in black America more starkly than Bill Cosby's now infamous assault on the black poor when he received an NAACP award in the spring of 2004. The comedian cum social critic lamented the lack of parenting, poor academic performance, sexual promiscuity, and criminal behavior among what he called the "knuckleheads" of the African American community. Even more surprising than his comments, however, was the