Critique

This book covered a lot of chapters on Teens and how they deal with race in different areas such as growing up biracial, and not being able to speak English and dealing with desegregation plus many other topics that everyone deals with everyday. This was one of the things that i liked about the book because it covered every area/issue about racism. The sociology issues in this book were realistic, i believe all of the results in the graphs and charts were true facts in really looked in too. One of the things i would change about the book would be, more information i would have liked this book to be longer and wanted to read more about the different topics. The information that i got from this book was really interesting and useful. The most useful info. was the section about Emmett Till, because i knew some info about this story but not everything and i thought it was very good to know the main issue about the story. The biracial chapter was good also because i have some friends that are biracial. Reading this showed that growing up biracial is just as hard as growing up African-American or any other race. Having to wonder your whole life what race you consider yourself, because your parents are two different races or more seemed difficult.

Commentary

My reaction to this book was that it was a great learning experience, because there is so many things that go on around the world that i did not know, dealing with teenagers and race. These type of problems don't only happen in America they happen outside of the U.S also. I believe that the authors points were strong and useful. The main idea coming from the author was, showing facts on how many teens are struggling with race issues just as much as adults are too.

Analysis

The book that i read Teens and Race by Hal Marcovitz is about teenagers and how they view the society and race issues. This book has many issues viewed and posted by The Gallup Youth Survey. The Gallup Youth Survey shows percentages and answers to many questions that people around the world thought on the different issues among racism about black, white, Latinos and many other ethnicity's. It also shows the opinions of so many different people on the topics about high school students all over the world. The main concept of this book was,to show what keeps so many Americans from interacting with each other. This issue starting so early effects people still to this day, but the main focus is teenagers who discriminate on some one different from them for all the wrong reasons.