Article: Souljah's Empty Gun

NO DISRESPECT By Sister Souljah Times Books, 360 pp. $23

Sister Souljah views herself and other African Americans as the victims of a cruel miseducation. She believes that throughout history relationships between black men and women have been disrupted by a consistent and systematic chiseling away at the black psyche by the tools of racism. In "No Disrespect," Sister Souljah attempts to counter this alleged conspiracy by providing a kind of primer for "the ghetto girl who nobody ever tells the definition of womanhood, or manhood for that matter." The result, however, is neither provocative nor challenging but, instead, a painfully vapid and pedantic series of autobiographical essays.

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