Reviews for The Endangered Black family

The average rating for The Endangered Black family based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-11-22 00:00:00 Anne Eldridge I'm not the biggest sports fan in the world, but I relish Gerald Early's writings about athletics in general and boxing in particular. His observations on Jake LaMotta allowed me to understand why the film Raging Bull never added up, and his other essays never give off the slumming intellectual vibe that afflicts so much writing on the subject. Not all of the essays are about sports, but all are good enough to make me wish Gerald Early were a quicker, more productive writer.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-08-07 00:00:00 Tom Edwards The titular essay, the pieces on Liston/Patterson and LaMotta/Graziano, and "House of Robinson, House of Ruth" are all excellent. Early is one of America's best African-American critics, but he's overlooked for many of the same reasons Armond White and Wesley Morris are: they're just not willing to clown it up for white audiences, as Cornel West seems all too willing to do.