How long does it take to read Race?
How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession
Race by Studs Terkel takes about 7 hours 23 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 23 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1992. 403 pages, about 110,825 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 19 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 23 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 37 minutes |
The page count is the median across 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
First published in 1992 at the height of the furor over the Rodney King incident, Studs Terkel's Race was an immediate bestseller. In a rare and revealing look at how people in America truly feel about race, Terkel brings out the full complexity of the thoughts and emotions of both blacks and whites, uncovering a fascinating narrative of changing opinions. Preachers and street punks, college students and Klansmen, interracial couples, the nephew of the founder of apartheid, and Emmett Till's mother are among those whose voices appear in Race. In all, nearly one hundred Americans talk openly about attitudes that few are willing to admit in public: Feelings about affirmative action, gentrification, secret prejudices, and dashed hopes.
Subjects: Race relations, Oral history, Racism, Rassismus, Rassenbeziehung, Interviews
