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New York Times veteran Lena Williams candidly explores the everyday occurrences that strain racial relations, reaching a conclusion that "no one could disagree with" (The New York Times Book Review)
Although we no longer live in a legally segregated society, the division between blacks and whites never seems to go away. We work together, go to school together, and live near each other, but beneath it all there is a level of misunderstanding that breeds mistrust and a level of miscommunication that generates anger. Now in paperback, this is Lena Williams's honest look at the interactions between blacks and whites-the gestures, expressions, tones, and body language that keep us divided.
Frank, funny, and smart, It's the Little Things steps back from academia and takes a candid approach to race relations. Based on her own experiences as well as what she has learned from focus groups across the United States, Lena Williams does for race what Deborah Tannen did for gender. Finally, we have a book that traverses the color lines to help us understand, and eliminate, the alarmingly common interactions that get under the skin of both blacks and whites.
- Sales Rank: #200825 in Books
- Color: Multicolor
- Published on: 2002-01-07
- Released on: 2002-01-07
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.95" h x .75" w x 5.28" l, .80 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 304 pages
Review
PRAISE FOR IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS
"Socially penetrating. . . . [This] should be put in every schoolchild's hand as soon as the youngster can understand it."-The Boston Globe
"A lighter discourse on the ultra-serious matter of race in America . . . A sounding board for blacks and whites concerned with bridging the racial divide."-Newsday
"The kind of reading that will make some black folks chuckle . . . A promising sort of harmony that's especially impressive."-The African Sun Times
"Sassy and informative, It's the Little Things lets blacks and whites walk a mile in each others' shoes."-The Christian Science Monitor
From the Back Cover
"The kind of reading that will make some black folks chuckle and nod their heads in appreciation." -African Sun Times
Based on personal experiences as well as those of focus groups across the country, Lena Williams does for race what Deborah Tannen did for gender. Although we no longer live in a legally segregated society, the division between blacks and whites never seems to go away. We work together, go to school together, and live near each other, but beneath it all there is a level of misunderstanding that breeds mistrust and a level of miscommunication that generates anger. Frank, funny, and smart, It's the Little Things takes a candid approach to race relations. Finally, we have a book that traverses the color lines to help us understand, and eliminate, the alarmingly common interactions that anger, annoy, and divide the races.
A Selection of Black Expression Book Club
"Sassy and informative, It's the Little Things lets blacks and whites walk a mile in each others' shoes." -Christian Science Monitor
"A sounding board for blacks and whites concerned with bridging the racial divide."-Newsday
"Socially penetrating. . . . [It's the Little Things] should be put in every schoolchild's hand as soon as the youngster can understand it."-Boston Globe
Lena Williams is a twenty-five-year veteran of the New York Times. Currently covering sports, she is also the chairperson of the Newspaper Guild at the New York Times. The article, "It's the Little Things" won the New York Association of Black Journalists award as a feature piece. She lives in New York City.
About the Author
Lena Williams, left, is a twenty-five-year veteran of the New York Times. Currently covering sports, she is the senior delegate of the Author's Guild at the New York Times. Her article "It's the Little Things" won the National Association of Black Journalists award for feature writing. She lives in New York City.
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38 of 40 people found the following review helpful.
Insightful but not truly helpful
By Ann Ueda
I read Ms. Williams' book to better understand racism in this country as experienced and described by Black people. (I am an Asian American woman and recognize that my own experiences with racism and oppression are unique to me and, to some extent, to my specific racial/ethnic group.)
Her book will definitely provide you with some sense of how some Black people experience life in this country. And for that, the book is both an opener for the eyes and the soul.
You may be very surprised at what angers, amuses, and discomforts Black people. (I myself learned many new things that I would not otherwise have known.) You may think that many things are due to mistaken assumptions or false understandings of "White people." (That's certainly true enough, something that Ms. Williams on occasion admits to being a problem.)
But I promise you: If you read this book with open eyes and an open soul, you will never view encounters with Black people--your own and those of other people around you--the same way again.
It doesn't really matter if the beliefs, perceptions, and assumptions of the Black people quoted in the book are true or if you think they're true. Some of them are not. What does matter (and why you should care) is that there are a myriad of things that White people do--consciously and unconsciously--that really angers Black people. And as long as they continue to exist and anger Black people, we as a country won't get very far ahead in "race relations" and healing ourselves from racism.
Other readers have identified problems with Ms. Williams' book. At times, Ms. Williams' sentiments do sound petty and unrelated to the topic at hand. Ms. Williams does not bother to consider how other issues like gender, class (a big issue that, ironically enough, she does not recognize in herself or her friendship circle), etc. also affect the experiences of both Whites and Blacks. The book is anecdotal and would have benefited greatly from an analytical methodology. The experiences described in the book are from a very select group of people who she met through a series of focus groups and primarily from her friendship circle. Ms. Williams provides no solutions or strategies for what she describes.
But, for all those problems and faults, the book is still worth reading. (It is surprisingly easy reading for being such a potentially difficult and sore subject.)
If her book makes you rethink the way we interact with each other and Black people, then it's done more than it's share of work towards increasing dialogue between people and races. And if it makes you rethink that, then I don't think it's too much more to make people actually change the way they interact with people from different races.
56 of 66 people found the following review helpful.
Not as advertised -- but interesting anyway
By Keith Snyder
Authors don't control their jacket copy. So when the back cover says "Lena Williams does for race what Deborah Tannen did for gender," it's unfair to hold Ms. Williams responsible.
This book does not do for race what Deborah Tannen did for gender. Tannen's examples and explanations did not show one side up as long-suffering and the other as long-insulting; her books do not make me feel demeaned when I read them. They frame cross-gender communication as cross-cultural communication and provide though-provoking information for both genders. I learn from them without ever being insulted.
"It's The Little Things" does not accomplish this. Is it worth buying if you're white and want to know what one black woman thinks of you? Yes. In that regard, it's interesting to this white man. I'm also a little better informed as to why certain responses exist on the black side of some black/white conflicts.
Is it a fair assessment of cross-cultural issues? No. Not even close. In many instances, it doesn't even try to be. This is a prejudiced author trying to be fair-minded and failing. If she has an understanding of points of view besides her own, that understanding does not appear in this text. This is a book about what white people are too dumb to understand without being told.
Since there were things in it that I was too dumb to understand without being told, it was worth my time. But if you're looking for something about "Everyday Interactions That Anger, Annoy, And Divide The Races" (the book's subtitle), this isn't it. This is "Stuff Lena Williams Is Fed Up With And Thinks She Can Put Across As The Truth Despite Her Lack Of Understanding Of Other People."
Since some of the stuff Lena Williams is fed up with was enlightening to me, I don't consider this a wasted purchase. But maybe next time out, she can learn something from the woman she's compared to on her jacket, and write a book that's about cross-racial issues as they really exist, not just idealize one race and demonize the other.
It's clear, from the occasional injection of comments from white people and the occasional "he has a point," that she sincerely tried not to demonize the other. It's also clear that her best intentions are no match for the chip on her shoulder.
White people may learn something from this book about their black neighbors, if their black neighbors happen to agree with Ms. Williams. Black people will learn very little about white people; most of the depiction of whites is quite shallow.
But, according to Ms. Williams, black people already know all about whites.
If she's any indication, she's mistaken.
A single chapter, "The White Take," makes a halfhearted effort at balance, but it's obviously a token gesture. It's an interesting book; I found it worth my time. However, it's not as advertised, and the author doesn't seem to know there's much to be said about the white side of the equation. Since white people are, ostensibly, half the subject of this book, that's a problem.
I disagree with the one-star reviews: It wasn't a waste of my time; but the flaws are serious.
58 of 69 people found the following review helpful.
As divisive and ill thought out as anything by Pat Buchanan
By David
Lena Williams, a journalist with the New York Times, here expands an article she wrote about little misunderstandings that fuel racial unease. In the process, she offers an idiosyncratic, ill-informed, contradictory, and all together divisive account of race relations.
Example: Williams decries that whites cannot see the beauty of African Americans because their images of attractiveness include only whites. Incredibly, she later reveals that marriages between whites and African Americans upset her, and that she personally would never consider having a relationship with a white person (even if this person was her ideal match in all respects other than skin color). Indeed, she calls white-African American marriages "another form of black self-hatred" (p.203).
Example: Williams chastises whites for showing no interest in African American culture. Later, Williams happily notes that a white patron of an African American ethnic restaurant will likely be stared down and purposely made to feel uncomfortable for encroaching into African American space. Williams feels this is perfectly reasonable.
Example: Williams notes that national surveys are obviously biased because she personally does not know any African Americans who have participated in them. She adds that no survey of 1,000 people can possibly represent 280 million Americans. Her skepticism is based on her lack of information. She simply is unaware of the principles of random sampling, and has no interest in learning of them. Indeed, her "Do you know any one who has been polled?" line of reasoning was popular with Barry Goldwater in 1964 when he claimed the polls were biased against Republicans.
Example: In discussing a landmark Affirmative Action case, Williams asks whatever became of the plaintiff, Allan Bakke. Her answer "Who knows? And I certainly don't care..." (p. 232)
That typifies the value of this book. It is a demagogic rant against things that bother Ms. Williams. If Pat Buchanan were an African American who disliked whites (instead of the other way around) he would be perfectly happy to have produced this work.
Ms. Williams may feel far too many people have failed to examine the role of race relations in their lives, and that is no doubt true. That cause is hardly advanced, however, by a person who neither thinks nor cares about our common humanity.
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