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Barbershops, Bibles, and BET : Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought by Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Melissa Harris-Perry is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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What is the best way to understand black political ideology? Just listen to the everyday talk that emerges in public spaces, suggests Melissa Harris-Lacewell. And listen this author has—to black college students talking about the Million Man March and welfare, to Southern, black Baptists discussing homosexuality in the church, to black men in a barbershop early on a Saturday morning, to the voices of hip-hop music and Black Entertainment Television. Using statistical, experimental, and ethnographic methods Barbershops, Bibles, and B.E.T offers a new perspective on the way public opinion and ideologies are formed at the grassroots level. The book makes an important contribution to our understanding of black politics by shifting the focus from the influence of national elites in opinion formation to the influence of local elites and people in daily interaction with each other. Arguing that African Americans use community dialogue to jointly develop understandings of their collective political interests, Harris-Lacewell identifies four political ideologies that constitute the framework of contemporary black political thought: Black Nationalism, Black Feminism, Black Conservatism and

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Author

Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Melissa Harris-Perry

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691114057

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Political Science, History

Rating

3.41 / 5 (27 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13