Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Social Matter - Hadley Bennett - Book Review: Face To Face With Race by Jared Taylor


Book Review: Face To Face With Race



Face to Face with Race is a compendium of personal accounts which together forms a lucid set of social and racial observations detailing Close Encounters of the Minority Kind. From the start, I found it to be a unique addition, in that it squares the circle by presenting first-person narratives without courting the usual sort of I Shot Myself In The Foot Because I Sound Crazy rhetoric only voiced on obscure blogs or newspaper comment sections with broken grammar and spelling–at the wrong place, at the wrong time.
The book is around 200 pages long and has 14 short stories, each with its own chapter. It’s available as a Kindle edition and paperback through the American Renaissance store. You can also find it at Amazon. A special thank you goes out to the fine folks at American Renaissance who sent me this new item edited by Jared Taylor for review.
I thoroughly enjoyed the book, but before I get to the interesting bits, first let me offer a couple of caveats. Be aware that this is not a dispassionate, anthropological work trying to make sense of the curious behaviors and habits of some tribe in the style of Charles Darwin or Samuel George Morton, but rather involves very personal experiences in story format. Leave Stoicism to the Stoics. Emotions are natural responses. At the same time, the authors are all very reasonable and none goes into hysterics. ...