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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Elder, Larry.
What’s race got to do with it? : Why it’s time to stop the stupidest argument in America / Larry Elder. — 1st Griffin paperback ed.
p. cm.
Rev. ed. of : Stupid Black men : how to play the race card—and lose / Larry Elder. New York : St. Martin’s Press, 2008.
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-54147-7
ISBN-10: 0-312-54147-3
1. African Americans—Social conditions—1975– 2. African Americans—Attitudes. 3. African American leadership. 4. African Americans—Politics and government. 5. Responsibility—United States. 6. Political correctness—United States. 7. United States—Politics and government—2001– 8. Mass media—Political aspects—United States. 9. United States—Race relations. 10. Racism—United States. I. Elder, Larry. Stupid Black men. II. Title.
E185.615. E393 2009
305/896’073—dc22
2008050779

Originally published as Stupid Black Men: How to Play the Race Card—and Lose by St. Martin’s Press

First St. Martin’s Griffin Edition: April 2009

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