The audiobook offers 10 revolutionary strategies for playing, mastering, and changing the game for the current generation, while undertaking a wholesale redefinition of the rules for those who will follow. But as millions of black Americans were reminded by Pinkett's experience, sometimes hard work is not enough.īlack Faces in White Places is about "the game" - that is, the competitive world in which we all live and work.
For generations, African Americans have been told that to succeed, they need to work twice as hard as everyone else.
The request (and Pinkett's subsequent refusal) set off a firestorm of controversy that inevitably focused on the issue of race in the American workplace and in society. When he won, this black man also became the only contestant to be asked to share his victory - with a white woman.
If the name Randal Pinkett sounds familiar, it may be because Pinkett was the first African American winner on The Apprentice.
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