Spare the Kids : Why Whupping Children Won't Save Black America

Spare the Kids examines the cultural tradition of corporal punishment in Black homes and its connections to racial violence in America. The impact on child rearing among so many black families of Stacey Pattons Spare the Kids may well prove as powerfully corrective as Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin was upon the acceptance of chattel slavery.David Levering Lewis, two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner for biographies on W. E. B. Du Bois