Stuart Buck

Naomi Schaefer Riley has a warm review of the book in the most recent edition of Commentary. Available only to subscribers.

I recorded a segment for the Michael Eric Dyson show today. I don’t yet know exactly when it will air. Dyson — a prominent African-American public intellectual and scholar — [...]

Steve Peha liked the book, as seen by his list of book recommendations at the National Journal:
Stuart Buck’s Acting White is powerful and provides a reasonably original theory that can be said to at least partly explain the achievement gap. If you were around in the 1960s to remember desegregation, this is your book. But [...]

I have a blog post published at the Washington Post discussing the theme of my book.

The Washington Times has a nice review here.

Luther Spoehr of Brown gives the book a nice review at the History News Network.

The Atlantic Wire covers the book here.

John McWhorter pens another nice article defending the book at The Root.

At TAPPED (the blog of The American Prospect), Jamelle Bouie has a post disagreeing with my book. He says:
By and large, this exchange is almost entirely anecdotal; if you set aside personal childhood memories, there simply isn’t much broad empirical evidence for the claim that black students in integrated settings have a racialized [...]

John McWhorter and Richard Thompson Ford discuss my book here:

I was interviewed early this morning by The Takeaway, a national morning news program jointly produced by WNYC, the New York Times, the BBC, Public Radio International, and WGBH. The audio is here:

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No. That’s not what the book argues. It’s more like this: segregation was a cancer on American society, and desegregation was like a powerful drug that combatted the cancer. Powerful drugs can have side effects that need to be addressed, but that doesn’t mean that it was better to have cancer.

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Stanford’s Richard Thompson Ford has a review of my book in Slate today. Even though he ultimately disagrees with my book’s thesis, the review is as fair and thoughtful as an author could hope.

He ascribes the “acting white” phenomenon not to school desegregation, but to the social isolation that often occurred as [...]

John McWhorter has a nice review of my book in The New Republic. A highlight:
Buck’s terrific book is longer on analysis than prescription; but its analysis comprises such invaluable history, and so deftly counters any fears underlying the pretense that the “acting white” charge is fictitious, that I cannot imagine we will soon see [...]