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    <body><![CDATA[I'll admit, I'm struggling to put together a good review for this book.  From a technical standpoint, the chapters were long and somewhat long-winded, and the examples of discrimination were often piled together in a somewhat haphazard fashion.  This book could really have used some tighter editing,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40290229">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[As seen in the March 10 2008 issue of the New Yorker.<br/><br/>Racism clearly exists (as evidenced by African-Americans' overwhelming overrepresentation in prisons and in poverty), yet neither I nor anyone else I know wakes up each day thinking, &quot;How can I discriminate against African-Americans...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19653206">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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