A Practical Guide to Racism - Rilegato

Dalton, C. H.

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ISBN 10: 1592403484 ISBN 13: 9781592403486

Casa editrice: Gotham Books, 2008

Riassunto

A whimsical and irreverent evaluation of the world's diverse populations, written pseudonymously by the fictional son of an elitist family, argues in support of supremacist belief systems while diminishing the sufferings of minority groups. 50,000 first printing.

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Recensione

“As everyone knows, there's only one thing that can end racism: laughter. Or fire. This book is a ready source of both. Read it with someone you hate.”
—Jon Stewart, The Daily Show

“An insightful and provocative treatise on race.?”
—John Hodgman, author of The Areas of My Expertise

“Mr. Dalton's book is sure to soothe, or possibly inflame, racial hatred.”
—George Meyer, writer and producer for The Simpsons

L'autore

C. H. Dalton, the famously reclusive former child prodigy, was born into a family of wealthy robber barons in New Haven, Connecticut in 1954. It was there that he first developed his passion for anthropology, making frequent exploratory journeys “below stairs” to observe the everyday lives of his family’s servants: this only after having been dissuaded from an early interest in lepidopterology by a father who deemed butterflies “too faggy” for his only son and heir.

At fourteen, Dalton received a full scholarship to study anthropology, but he instead concentrated in the biological sciences, hoping to prove a chemical and genetic basis for his earlier observations. Fascinated by both taxonomy and the promise of eugenics, Dalton strove to more perfectly categorize all humankind according to their genetic predispositions.

After receiving his Ph.D. in just three years, Dalton accepted the prestigious Charles Lindbergh professorship in Ethnography at the Institute for Advanced Studies in New Jersey, where he teaches an intensive course load of two lectures every other semester. He has never married.

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• Editore: Gotham Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1592403484
• ISBN 13: 9781592403486
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 203