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We love it

Revisado: 10-04-22

B(6) loved the song Frank sings. He sings the ShuffaloBuffalo song all the time now.
A(6) love the reader. She is amazing. The story is great. He loves sting Ray the most.
M(3) loves the Buffalo Shuffle as well.
Kids asked for this book every time we got in the car and every night until we finished it. They don’t like scary things or mean characters and this fit the bill. I don’t know why the narrator needed to add axe murderers and ghosts to the basement but they survived it.

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Great content, very folksy

Revisado: 03-26-21

The content of this book is amazing and I wish everybody could read it. It is well researched and very helpful.

With that being said, the author is SO ANNOYING. She has a Ph.D from Berkeley and she is obviously smart as a whip but she writes so colloquially that she sounds stupid. Maybe not even stupid- worse- like a smart kid acting stupid to be popular. The effect is not fun at all. If she wrote with the full power of her intellect it would be easy to follow. Instead, she sounds like somebody from “Real Housewives” tripped over somebody else’s research and wrote a book to be popular.

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Important field of research

Revisado: 12-10-16

I didn't realize how much I appreciated this book until the last chapter, in which the author discusses his methods. To be sure, I listened to the whole 12 or so hours of it in 2-3 days because I was riveted to the story. But when the author described his research methods, the embedded ethnography enhanced by a MacArthur-supported survey project and intense fact-checking and data analysis, I realized that this work wasn't just a story, but the new standard of modern sociological research. The people in his research are fully 3-dimensional characters, with our shared fallibilities and -we should be so honored- our shared humanity.

I listened to this book right after Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow. This is an important companion to that book - the view of race in America that she describes is a painful undercurrent throughout this book.

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So much to learn

Revisado: 12-02-16

This book was a beautifully written and soundly argued history of race in America. I wish everybody could read this book - it offers meaningful ways to talk about race and the criminal justice system and ways we can move forward in solidarity together. We all have so much to learn about others in order to build a more just future. This is an excellent place to start.

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Required reading

Revisado: 09-30-16

This book should be required reading in every high school and college in America. Coates has nailed the most important issues of our time - and told it all through a compelling and personal narrative. Buy the book - you will underline and dog-ear page after page before anxiously sharing it with others.

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