Reviews for Dictionary of Afro-American slavery

The average rating for Dictionary of Afro-American slavery based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-08-11 00:00:00 David Romanoff While an interesting topic that needs to be analyzed, this book suffers from an author who approaches the topic with tunnel vision. Alterman seems to have his ideas shape his research, often cherry picking examples from simple statements or laying grand conclusions from weak evidence. In addition, the topic is naturally problematic, given that the conservative/liberal bias tends to increase/decrease given one's own political leanings. To pick out a true bias one needs to get beyond how news is presented, but rather in editorial decisions - something Alterman doesn not do enough of. While I appreciate the effort, and while Alterman's thesis is indeed plausible (increasingly), I don't know if I buy it in light of other media studies on how news is presented and why it is done so (see Hallin's "Uncensored War").

Review # 2 was written on 2013-07-19 00:00:00 Gary Driscoll Painfully unnecessary tedium.