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“Mr. Dalton’s book is sure to soothe, or possibly inflame, racial hatred.”
— George Meyer, The Simpsons
“What makes this insightful and provocative treatise on race all the more astonishing is the fact that it was supposedly written by a shifting, lazy, drunken, inscrutable, penny-pinching, swarthy-faced, foul-browed Harvard man. If this is true, and not some sort of hoax, then I stand amazed. How did he even manage to type this text with his hideous claws?”
— John Hodgman, Yale class of 1994
“As everyone knows, there’s only one thing that can end racism: laughter. Or fire. This book is a ready source of both. Read it with someone you hate.”
— Jon Stewart, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
“A Practical Guide to Racism casts America’s tragic flaw in a hilarious new light.”
— Dana Gould, The Simpsons, The Ben Stiller Show
“Ruthless, insightful satire that finds targets everywhere it looks; more gasps per page than a Tijuana Bible. It’s hard to shock people these days, yes. This book proves that it’s not yet impossible.”
— John Darnielle, The Mountain Goats
“Please don’t dismiss this as the ramblings of some ignorant racist. Dalton is one smart racist. I mean, A Practical Guide To Racism practically guides you to racism! Awesome. You go my nigga.”
— Larry Wilmore, The Daily Show, The Office
“The dedication of this book says ‘For the Ladies,’ but the truth is that A Practical Guide to Racism is for everyone. No one is left unscathed by this filthy, foul, funny guide to race-based bile. Whether you need to prove that Charlton Heston was born in Egypt or you need a handy guide to the differences between Jews and zombies (there are several), this is the book for you.”
— Ben Greenman, author of Superbad
A Practical Guide to Racism tackles America’s tragic flaw from a new, illuminating perspective. As a world-renowned expert on ethnography, as well as phrenology and the rhythm method, C.H. Dalton is uniquely qualified to offer his perspective on this difficult topic.
The book is divided into nine chapters, one for each of the nine races: Whites, Blacks, Jews, Asians, Indians (and Injuns), Arabs, Gypsies, Hispanics, and Merpeople. In each chapter, Dalton provides a comprehensive and unapologetic handbook to the race in question, as well as a history of their oppression, and a guide to the stereotypes about them and their basis in fact.
In several helpful appendixes, Dalton examines, in turn, sexual races like Gays and Women, ancient races like Phoenicians and Doozers, and interracial dating. He also provides a handy guide to “The Good Ones” from each race, and their crania.
Finally, Dalton has compiled the first complete glossary of racial epithets, including a selection of his own suggestions for additional slurs. Like “Frazetta,” a slur for a rugged, muscled white person holding a battleaxe. (E.g., “Hey, look at that Frazetta standing triumphantly over the corpse of that Orc!”)
The volume is illustrated with helpful diagrams and anatomical drawings from racialist luminaries such as Sock Monkey and “Maakies” artist Tony Millionaire, New Yorker and McSweeney’s illustrator Michael Kupperman, “Perry Bible Fellowship” cartoonist Nicholas Gurewitch, New Yorker cartoonist Sam Means, New Yorker illustrator Andy Friedman, illustratrix and printmaker Liz Zanis, and America (The Book) illustrator R. Sikoryak (featured above).
The "Sexual Races" appendix of A Practical Guide to Racism is available for your review.
