{"product_id":"the-good-black-isbn-9780452278592","title":"The Good Black","description":"Larry Mungin spent his life preparing to succeed in the white world. He looked away from racial inequality and hostility, believing he'd make it if he worked hard and played by the rules. He rose from a Queens housing project to Harvard Law School, and went on to practice law at major corporate firms. But just at the point when he thought he'd make it, when he should have been considered for partnership, he sued his employer for racial discrimination. The firm claimed it went out of its way to help Larry because of his race, while Larry thought he'd been treated unfairly. Was Larry a victim of racial discrimination, or just another victim of the typical dog-eat-dog corporate law culture? A thought-provoking courtroom drama with the fast pace of a commercial novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Good Black\u003c\/i\u003e asks readers to rethink their ideas about race and is a fascinating look at the inner workings of the legal profession.Chapter One: \"Don't Be Afraid; I'm One of the \u003ci\u003eGood\u003c\/i\u003e Blacks\"\u003cbr\u003eChapter Two: \"Eat What You Kill\"\u003cbr\u003eChapter Three: \"You Don't Want to Mess with This Guy\"\u003cbr\u003eChapter Four: \"Play by the Rules and the System Will Treat You Right\"\u003cbr\u003eChapter Five: \"You'll Get Screwed the Way I Got Screwed\"\u003cbr\u003eChapter Six: \"A Balls-Out Firm\"\u003cbr\u003eChapter Seven: \"What Are You Doing with That Nigger Friend?\"\u003cbr\u003eChapter Eight: \"A Cocky Guy in for a Fall\"\u003cbr\u003eChapter Nine: \"Saving Mungin\"\u003cbr\u003eChapter Ten: \"You Fell Between the Cracks\"\u003cbr\u003eChapter Eleven: \"As Long As You Get a Paycheck, You Do as You're Told\"\u003cbr\u003eChapter Twelve: \"They Promised You the World; They Gave You the Street Corner\"\u003cbr\u003eChapter Thirteen: \"I Am a Whistle-Blower\"\u003cbr\u003eChapter Fourteen:\" There Will Be a Trial\"\u003cbr\u003eChapter Fifteen: \"Racism: When It's There, You Can See It\"\u003cbr\u003eChapter Sixteen: \"It's My Party; I'll Cry If I Want To\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Seventeen: \"Afraid We Would Lose Him\"\u003cbr\u003eChapter Eighteen: \"Shucking and Jiving\"\u003cbr\u003eChapter Nineteen: \"Teach the Firm a Lesson\"\u003cbr\u003eChapter Twenty: \"We Were Pushing for Him\"\u003cbr\u003eChapter Twenty-One: \"God Has a Plan for Everybody\"\u003cbr\u003eChapter Twenty-Two: \"No Reasonable Juror...\"\u003cbr\u003eChapter Twenty-Three\": Conclusion: Integration's Paradox\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003eAfterword\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e“Superb and provocative… It will rivet anyone wondering why the struggle to racially integrate Corporate America has made such scant progress.”—\u003cb\u003eDavid Segal, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Like Grisham, Barrett has a knack for writing dramatically about lawyers and their world. What haunts this reader is the sadness of a man who spent his life trying to be ‘a good black.’”—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “An emotional roller coaster… Should serve as a wake-up call for those who have ignored the wide gulf between blacks and whites in the American workforce.”—\u003cb\u003eLawrence Otis Graham, author of \u003ci\u003eOur Kind of People \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMember of the Club\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Barrett has written a fascinating racial \u003ci\u003eRashomon \u003c\/i\u003estory. With unusual empathy and evenhandedness, Barrett illuminates the complicated workings of race in a middle-class, post-civil rights society—while at the same time spinning an absorbing courtroom yarn.”—\u003cb\u003eNicholas Lemann, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Promised Land\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A morality tale with a twist… Has the power to unsettle us and our self-congratulatory expectations.”—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDenver Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A remarkably clear portrait… part case comment, part biography, and part snapshot of race relations at the end of the twentieth century.”—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHarvard\u003c\/i\u003e magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Powerful and poignant.”—\u003cb\u003eDavid J. Garrow, author of \u003ci\u003eBearing the\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003cb\u003eCross\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Raises all the right questions… paints an intimate picture… illustrates one of the modern-day iterations of the debate about race.”—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “An important story… No one who cares about the future of black-white relations in this country can afford to ignore its lessons.”—\u003cb\u003eCharles Lane, editor, \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eThe Good Black\u003c\/i\u003e really is \u003ci\u003eThe Firm\u003c\/i\u003e… Illuminates not only the avarice at the core of modern law practice but the never-ending ambiguities of race.”—\u003cb\u003eJeffrey Toobin, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul M. Barrett\u003c\/b\u003e is an assistant managing editor and senior writer at\u003ci\u003e Businessweek\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eGlock: The Rise of America's Gun\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Islam: The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Good Black: A True Story of Race in America\u003c\/i\u003e. Barrett lives and works in New York City.","brand":"Plume","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302105534693,"sku":"NP9780452278592","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780452278592.jpg?v=1767739584","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-good-black-isbn-9780452278592","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}