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GHETTONATION A Journey Into the Land of the Bling And the Home of the Shameless By Cora Daniels Doubleday. 205 pp. $23.95 It has been almost three years since Bill Cosby's infamous "Pound Cake Speech" -- his unfiltered chastisement of poor people who, in his estimation, "are not holding their end in this deal" -- and the howls have yet to fade. Academics (myself included), pundits and barbershop prognosticators are still arguing about the validity of Cosby's tirade, over whether racism or bad habits are responsible for the conditions of poor blacks in this country. Into this century's old tangle of intraracial anxiety falls Ghettonation, Cora Daniels's exploration of all that is gauche, urban and embarrassingly public. ...-
Reviewed by William Jelani Cobb