{"product_id":"barbershops-bibles-and-bet-everyday-talk-and-black-political-thought-paperback","title":"Barbershops, Bibles, and Bet: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMelissa Victoria Harris-Lacewell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is the best way to understand black political ideology? Just listen to the everyday talk that emerges in public spaces, suggests Melissa Harris-Lacewell. And listen this author has--to black college students talking about the Million Man March and welfare, to Southern, black Baptists discussing homosexuality in the church, to black men in a barbershop early on a Saturday morning, to the voices of hip-hop music and Black Entertainment Television. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUsing statistical, experimental, and ethnographic methods \u003ci\u003eBarbershops, Bibles, and B.E.T\u003c\/i\u003e offers a new perspective on the way public opinion and ideologies are formed at the grassroots level. The book makes an important contribution to our understanding of black politics by shifting the focus from the influence of national elites in opinion formation to the influence of local elites and people in daily interaction with each other. Arguing that African Americans use community dialogue to jointly develop understandings of their collective political interests, Harris-Lacewell identifies four political ideologies that constitute the framework of contemporary black political thought: Black Nationalism, Black Feminism, Black Conservatism and Liberal Integrationism. These ideologies, the book posits, help African Americans to understand persistent social and economic inequality, to identify the significance of race in that inequality, and to devise strategies for overcoming it.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"While sociologists have produced wonderful ethnographic works on the black community, few have explained the political relevance of discourse in these communities. Harris-Lacewell links public discourse with ideology formation and political behavior in a way that is compelling, new, and important.\"\u003cb\u003e--Andrea Simpson, University of Richmond, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Tie that Binds\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMelissa Harris-Perry, \u003c\/b\u003eformerly Melissa Victoria Harris-Lacewell, is the Maya Angelou Presidential Chair at Wake Forest University, where she is the founding director of the Anna Julia Cooper Center. She is editor-at-large at \u003ci\u003eElle.com\u003c\/i\u003e and hosted the \u003ci\u003eMelissa Harris-Perry\u003c\/i\u003e show on MSNBC from 2012-2016. She is also the author of \u003ci\u003eSister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.91 x 9.29 x 6.13 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 23, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42132364951687,"sku":"9780691126098","price":64.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/dd8a93a512880dc0f62543836ef81555.webp?v=1732625924","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/barbershops-bibles-and-bet-everyday-talk-and-black-political-thought-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}