Overview

Full Product Details

9780981240596

Table of Contents

Reviews

Amazed at the many fronts on which [Ishmael Reed] has gathered little-reported facts.... I hope his book will lead to more journalistic self-reflection and intellectual honesty. - Werner Sollors, Professor of English Literature and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University The new book levels the charge that American mainstream media, dominated by white conservative-minded pundits, have set on a mission to break the country's first black president whose progressive ideals and objectives are anathema to the entrenched white moneyed establishment, which owns big media and manipulates it to inflame paranoid and racist sentiment among the white middle and underclass. - Hubert Bauch, THE MONTREAL GAZETTE (April 24, 2010) Just finished reading the satirist and essayist Ishmael Reed's brilliant new book, Barack Obama and Jim Crow Media, The Return of the Nigger Breakers, and in response have yet again modified my media diet. Jill Nelson, journalist, novelist, American Book Award winner. Just when you think that Reed is exaggerating, or being one-dimensional in his analysis of racial issues, he'll open another page of American history and show you something new. - David Homel, Rover Arts, Montreal Highly provocative. --Tony Norman, Pittsburgh Post-GazetteReed's writing is incisive and astute; impassioned and amusing. He fully researches his topics and makes a decisive stand based on the facts, as he sees it. Whether you agree with him or not, you at least get to explore a different viewpoint. Sometimes his words stick with you, and when you're confronted with a specific issue that he raised in one of his books -- could be months later -- you find yourself thinking back to what Reed said.... Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media... is an unabashed mixture of political polemic, scathing with and cultural commentary -- a jazz-like riff that is purely Ishmael Reed. -- Gabrielle David, phati'tude Literary Magazine, Winter 2011

Brilliant! --Jill Nelson, award-winning novelist and journalist I hope his book will lead to more journalistic self-reflection and intellectual honesty. --Werner Sollers, Harvard University Highly provocative. --Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Just when you think that Reed is exaggerating, or being one-dimensional in his analysis of racial issues, he'll open another page of American history and show you something new. --David Homel, Rover Arts Reed's prose style resembles the youthful Ali's ring style. --New York Times Book Review There is brutal candour in Reed's argument, which often feels refreshing in light of the euphemisms and platitudes typically expressed in both polite discourse and the media's self-scrutiny . . . Whether or not one agrees with Reed, one can only be entertained by his gleeful barbs and edgy turns-of-phrase. He names names and shames with derision. --Montreal Review of Books Among American writers, Ishmael Reed is probably the one whose sensibility is closest to jazz. --New York Times The brightest contributor to American satire since Mark Twain. --Nation

I hope his book will lead to more journalistic self-reflection and intellectual honesty. --Werner Sollers, Harvard University Brilliant! --Jill Nelson, award-winning novelist and journalist Highly provocative. -- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Highly provocative. --Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Just when you think that Reed is exaggerating, or being one-dimensional in his analysis of racial issues, he'll open another page of American history and show you something new. --David Homel, Rover Arts Reed's prose style resembles the youthful Ali's ring style. --New York Times Book Review The brightest contributor to American satire since Mark Twain. --Nation Among American writers, Ishmael Reed is probably the one whose sensibility is closest to jazz. --New York Times There is brutal candour in Reed's argument, which often feels refreshing in light of the euphemisms and platitudes typically expressed in both polite discourse and the media's self-scrutiny . . . Whether or not one agrees with Reed, one can only be entertained by his gleeful barbs and edgy turns-of-phrase. He names names and shames with derision. --Montreal Review of Books Amazed at the many fronts on which [Ishmael Reed] has gathered little-reported facts.... I hope his book will lead to more journalistic self-reflection and intellectual honesty. - Werner Sollors, Professor of English Literature and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University The new book levels the charge that American mainstream media, dominated by white conservative-minded pundits, have set on a mission to break the country's first black president whose progressive ideals and objectives are anathema to the entrenched white moneyed establishment, which owns big media and manipulates it to inflame paranoid and racist sentiment among the white middle and underclass. - Hubert Bauch, THE MONTREAL GAZETTE (April 24, 2010) Just finished reading the satirist and essayist Ishmael Reed's brilliant new book, Barack Obama and Jim Crow Media, The Return of the Nigger Breakers, and in response have yet again modified my media diet. Jill Nelson, journalist, novelist, American Book Award winner. Just when you think that Reed is exaggerating, or being one-dimensional in his analysis of racial issues, he'll open another page of American history and show you something new. - David Homel, Rover Arts, Montreal Highly provocative. --Tony Norman, Pittsburgh Post-GazetteReed's writing is incisive and astute; impassioned and amusing. He fully researches his topics and makes a decisive stand based on the facts, as he sees it. Whether you agree with him or not, you at least get to explore a different viewpoint. Sometimes his words stick with you, and when you're confronted with a specific issue that he raised in one of his books -- could be months later -- you find yourself thinking back to what Reed said.... Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media... is an unabashed mixture of political polemic, scathing with and cultural commentary -- a jazz-like riff that is purely Ishmael Reed. -- Gabrielle David, phati'tude Literary Magazine, Winter 2011

I hope his book will lead to more journalistic self-reflection and intellectual honesty. --Werner Sollers, Harvard University Brilliant! --Jill Nelson, award-winning novelist and journalist Highly provocative. -- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Highly provocative. --Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Just when you think that Reed is exaggerating, or being one-dimensional in his analysis of racial issues, he'll open another page of American history and show you something new. --David Homel, Rover Arts Reed's prose style resembles the youthful Ali's ring style. --New York Times Book Review The brightest contributor to American satire since Mark Twain. --Nation Among American writers, Ishmael Reed is probably the one whose sensibility is closest to jazz. --New York Times There is brutal candour in Reed's argument, which often feels refreshing in light of the euphemisms and platitudes typically expressed in both polite discourse and the media's self-scrutiny . . . Whether or not one agrees with Reed, one can only be entertained by his gleeful barbs and edgy turns-of-phrase. He names names and shames with derision. --Montreal Review of Books Amazed at the many fronts on which [Ishmael Reed] has gathered little-reported facts.... I hope his book will lead to more journalistic self-reflection and intellectual honesty. - Werner Sollors, Professor of English Literature and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University The new book levels the charge that American mainstream media, dominated by white conservative-minded pundits, have set on a mission to break the country's first black president whose progressive ideals and objectives are anathema to the entrenched white moneyed establishment, which owns big media and manipulates it to inflame paranoid and racist sentiment among the white middle and underclass. - Hubert Bauch, THE MONTREAL GAZETTE (April 24, 2010) Just finished reading the satirist and essayist Ishmael Reed's brilliant new book, Barack Obama and Jim Crow Media, The Return of the Nigger Breakers, and in response have yet again modified my media diet. Jill Nelson, journalist, novelist, American Book Award winner. Just when you think that Reed is exaggerating, or being one-dimensional in his analysis of racial issues, he'll open another page of American history and show you something new. - David Homel, Rover Arts, Montreal Highly provocative. --Tony Norman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Reed's writing is incisive and astute; impassioned and amusing. He fully researches his topics and makes a decisive stand based on the facts, as he sees it. Whether you agree with him or not, you at least get to explore a different viewpoint. Sometimes his words stick with you, and when you're confronted with a specific issue that he raised in one of his books -- could be months later -- you find yourself thinking back to what Reed said.... Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media... is an unabashed mixture of political polemic, scathing with and cultural commentary -- a jazz-like riff that is purely Ishmael Reed. -- Gabrielle David, phati'tude Literary Magazine, Winter 2011

<p> Amazed at the many fronts on which [Ishmael Reed] has gathered little-reported facts.... I hope his book will lead to more journalistic self-reflection and intellectual honesty. - Werner Sollors, Professor of English Literature and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University<p> The new book levels the charge that American mainstream media, dominated by white conservative-minded pundits, have set on a mission to break the country's first black president whose progressive ideals and objectives are anathema to the entrenched white moneyed establishment, which owns big media and manipulates it to inflame paranoid and racist sentiment among the white middle and underclass. - Hubert Bauch, THE MONTREAL GAZETTE (April 24, 2010)<p> Just finished reading the satirist and essayist Ishmael Reed's brilliant new book, Barack Obama and Jim Crow Media, The Return of the Nigger Breakers, and in response have yet again modified my media diet. Jill Nelson, journalist, novelist, American Book Award winner.<p> Just when you think that Reed is exaggerating, or being one-dimensional in his analysis of racial issues, he'll open another page of American history and show you something new. - David Homel, Rover Arts, Montreal<p> Highly provocative. --Tony Norman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<p>Reed's writing is incisive and astute; impassioned and amusing. He fully researches his topics and makes a decisive stand based on the facts, as he sees it. Whether you agree with him or not, you at least get to explore a different viewpoint. Sometimes his words stick with you, and when you're confronted with a specific issue that he raised in one of his books -- could be months later -- you find yourself thinking back to what Reed said.... Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media... is an unabashed mixture of political polemic, scathing with and cultural commentary -- a jazz-like riff that is purely Ishmael Reed. -- Gabrielle David, phati'tude Literary Magazine, Winter 2011<p>

There is brutal candour in Reed's argument, which often feels refreshing in light of the euphemisms and platitudes typically expressed in both polite discourse and the media's self-scrutiny . . . Whether or not one agrees with Reed, one can only be entertained by his gleeful barbs and edgy turns-of-phrase. He names names and shames with derision. --Montreal Review of Books I hope his book will lead to more journalistic self-reflection and intellectual honesty. --Werner Sollers, Harvard University Brilliant! --Jill Nelson, award-winning novelist and journalist Reed's prose style resembles the youthful Ali's ring style. --New York Times Book Review Highly provocative. -- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The brightest contributor to American satire since Mark Twain. -- Nation Just when you think that Reed is exaggerating, or being one-dimensional in his analysis of racial issues, he'll open another page of American history and show you something new. --David Homel, Rover Arts Among American writers, Ishmael Reed is probably the one whose sensibility is closest to jazz. -- New York Times Amazed at the many fronts on which [Ishmael Reed] has gathered little-reported facts.... I hope his book will lead to more journalistic self-reflection and intellectual honesty. - Werner Sollors, Professor of English Literature and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University The new book levels the charge that American mainstream media, dominated by white conservative-minded pundits, have set on a mission to break the country's first black president whose progressive ideals and objectives are anathema to the entrenched white moneyed establishment, which owns big media and manipulates it to inflame paranoid and racist sentiment among the white middle and underclass. - Hubert Bauch, THE MONTREAL GAZETTE (April 24, 2010) Just finished reading the satirist and essayist Ishmael Reed's brilliant new book, Barack Obama and Jim Crow Media, The Return of the Nigger Breakers, and in response have yet again modified my media diet. Jill Nelson, journalist, novelist, American Book Award winner. Just when you think that Reed is exaggerating, or being one-dimensional in his analysis of racial issues, he'll open another page of American history and show you something new. - David Homel, Rover Arts, Montreal Highly provocative. --Tony Norman, Pittsburgh Post-GazetteReed's writing is incisive and astute; impassioned and amusing. He fully researches his topics and makes a decisive stand based on the facts, as he sees it. Whether you agree with him or not, you at least get to explore a different viewpoint. Sometimes his words stick with you, and when you're confronted with a specific issue that he raised in one of his books -- could be months later -- you find yourself thinking back to what Reed said.... Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media... is an unabashed mixture of political polemic, scathing with and cultural commentary -- a jazz-like riff that is purely Ishmael Reed. -- Gabrielle David, phati'tude Literary Magazine, Winter 2011

Among American writers, Ishmael Reed is probably the one whose sensibility is closest to jazz. -- New York Times

Author Information

Ishmael Reed is an important American poet, novelist, playwright, and song writer who has taught at Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, and the University of California–Berkeley. He is author of Japanese by Spring, The Terrible Twos, and Writin' Is Fightin: Thirty-seven Years of Boxing on Paper. He lives in Oakland, California.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available