Book Review: Great overall perspective on Black Self Image
Black America, Body Beautiful
At times during the book, the Author falls back on the well-worn path of cries of racism that fail to further the books’ goal of a positive, healthy, forward looking and thinking Black Body Image. There is much to be learned from slavery and racism, but it is unknown if the wide encapsulation of subjects of this book was meant to include them. Several of the subjects the Author covers are areas that are of unintended or unknown ’slaps in the face’ of African Americans by European Americans.
The books’ “feel-good” aura is somewhat diminished by this underlying theme.
What does come through, bright and shining, is the intended consequence of how positive and healthy Black Women are feeling and redefining themselves as a result of the power they hold over their own misconceptions of what it means to be Black and Beautiful.
This constant reinterpretation within and without the African American/Black communities are overwhelmingly positive forces for America, as a whole. This is the main point the Author is driving home and what should be taken from this fantastic discourse on African American Culture, Pride, Self-Image and History.
October 17th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
There is no problem on the way you have to improve yourself among of us..black american people are greatly appreciated because they are really talented.