A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Sunday, July 13, 2014

RACE AND THE MEDIA

Eric Deggans, Race-Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) ("One of the subtlest early warning signs of prejudice is the unearned, insulting cultural assumption." "If you're African American, it may be someone who uses street slang in speaking to you before they have heard you say a word; after all, if you're black, you must prefer being called 'bro' and 'homes.' For a Latino person, it's the knucklehead who casually tosses around curse words in Spanish or asks about street gang life." Id. at 72.).