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    <body><![CDATA[Read the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.stopsmilingonline.com/story_detail.php?id=483">STOP SMILING interview</a> with Studs Terkel:<br/><br/><strong>BEHIND THE BILLBOARDS</strong><br/>By Danny Postel and JC Gabel<br/><br/>(This interview originally appeared in the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.stopsmilingstore.com/issue24thechicagoissue.aspx">STOP SMILING <em>Chicago Issue</em>)<br/><br/>Studs Terkel is “as much a part of Chicago as the Sears Tower and Al Capone,” a BBC j...</a><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50619348">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Studs Terkel's &quot;Race&quot; is another in a series of books that provides an excellent oral history about subjects that few feel free to talk about. If you like oral history, then you'll love Studs Terkel. Famous for his classic book &quot;Working&quot;, he seeks out common &quot;unfamous&quot; ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1680543">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There is no &quot;them&quot; just individuals.  <br/><br/>This Studs Terkel book only took me a little over a year to read, far faster than the four years it took me to read Working.<br/><br/>Reading this book is like having a discussion with 88 different people about race, racism, prejudice, an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1486013">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I heard Terkel speak years ago at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) on race just after this book was published.  Terkel is to be commended for acknowledging the proverbial elephant in the room.  So why is it that it's the working class guy who gets us to begin a long-overdue nation...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63190846">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An oral history of race relations in the U.S. that despite its flaws should probably be read by everyone.<br/><br/>It's not perfect: it's a little dated and a little too focused on the civil rights backlash, black-white relations and the consequences of de-industrialization in the Midwest.  In oth...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/819746">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was a wonderful peak into our minds as a collective. Some people I agreed with, some I didn't. Most of all, I was able to see the motivations behind stereotypes; fear of the unknown. The complexities that make up America will not be fixed overnight. America is a family with definite hang ups. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sometimes fascinating, sometimes insufferable examination of race ca. the early 90's, when it was the national obsession to a higher degree than usual.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I remember liking this book but not enough to keep it around. Somehow I knew I wouldn't read it again.  Slightly simplistic, I found.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another First.  I read this book in 1992 while I was pregnant with Kennan.  Growing up in an all white county in Western Kentucky, I wanted to learn as much as I could about race so if any of the racist tendencies from my upbringing could be partnered with a real intellectual's thinking about the is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38023390">more...</a>]]></body>
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