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Article: What Black People Should Do Now: Dispatches from Near the Vanguard.(Brief Article)
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- Black Enterprise
- Article date:
- March 1, 1994
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Ralph Wiley is Back on the Block with a new volume of essays, What Black People Should Do Now: Dispatches From Near The Vanguard. Unfortunately similar to his first collection, Why Black People Tend to Shout, this new book also fails to deliver. In essays on everything from baseball to Clarence Thomas, the reader will find Wiley sometimes engaging or amusing. But the reader won't find anything new and provocative.
Wiley is at his best writing as a humorist. For example, in "Why Black People Don't Buy Books," he's hilarious joking about the pains he went through to cut a deal with a reputable publisher. "I was told, in essence, Black people still don't buy ...