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How not to get shot : and other advice from white people
- Title
- How not to get shot : and other advice from white people / D. L. Hughley and Doug Moe.
- Author
- Hughley, D. L. (Darryl L.), 1963-
- Publication
- New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]
- ©2018
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Moe, Doug (Comedian)
- Description
- viii, 260 pages : illustrations; 20 cm
- Summary
- Legendary African American activist-comedian D. L. Hughley uses satire to draw attention to white privilege and racial injustice, sardonically offering an illustrated how-to guide for black people, full of insight from white people, about how to act, dress, speak, walk, and drive in the safest manner possible.
- Subjects
- United States
- Police shootings
- Social justice
- United States > Race relations > Humor
- Black author
- Race relations
- Police shootings > United States > Humor
- American essays > 21st century
- Humor
- United States > Politics and government > Humor
- American wit and humor
- 2000-2099
- Essays
- Social justice > United States > Humor
- Politics and government
- Genre/Form
- Essays.
- Humor.
- Contents
- Part I: How not to get shot by the police. Comply with police orders ; Don't talk back ; Don't break the law! ; You have to understand: cops are scared ; Do be an angel ; Don't drive like a suspect ; If you do get shot, don't rush to judgment ; The real way to not get shot by police -- Part II: How to look. Don't match the description ; How to dress less threatening ; Don't have gang tattoos ; How to do your hair -- Part III: How to act. How to be nice and quiet ; What kind of music should you listen to? ; Stop making white people say the n-word ; How to not come from a single-parent household ; What to name your kids ; How to get a job ; Stop taking handouts ; How to move into a white neighborhood -- Part IV: Understanding white people. What kind of black people do white people like? ; Your bill of rights ; "I'm not racist, I have black friends" ; How not to be a reverse racist ; How not to play the race card ; End white-on-white crime! ; How to make white food -- Part V: Tidbits of advice for white people from black people. It's hard being white, but try to make do ; Pay attention to signs.
- Call Number
- Sc C 18-13
- ISBN
- 9780062698544
- 0062698540
- OCLC
- 1030257808
- Author
- Hughley, D. L. (Darryl L.), 1963- author.
- Title
- How not to get shot : and other advice from white people / D. L. Hughley and Doug Moe.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Moe, Doug (Comedian), author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc C 18-13