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When race becomes real : Black and White writers confront their personal histories
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- Online
Details
- Creator
- edited by Bernestine Singley ; with an epilogue by Derrick Bell
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, 2008
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 335 pages) : illustrations
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9780809387366, 9781441690654, 9780809328857, 0809387360, 0809328852, 1441690654
- OCLC
- ocn711003831
- Originally published: Chicago : Lawrence Hill Books, ©2002.
- English.
- Genesis. Race story / Jim Schutze ; Crazy sometimes / Leonard Pitts, Jr. ; Experiences and memories / Robert Coles ; Night I stopped being a Negro / Les Payne ; Son of the South / John Seigenthaler, Sr. ; Talking white / Kimberly Springer ; Central Park samaritan / Natalie Angier ; It all started with my parents / Lucy Gibson -- Fear and longing. Race, rage, and the ace of spades / Julianne Malveaux ; To make them stand in fear / David Bradley ; Passing / Theresa M. Towner ; Black and white / Robert Jensen ; For colored girls who have resisted homogenization when the rainbow ain't enough / Joycelyn K. Moody ; Anatomy of a fairy princess / Patricia J. Williams ; Rambling response to the play Marie Christine / Kalamu ya Salaam ; Black, white, and seeing red all over / Shawn E. Rhea ; Race fatigue / Ira J. Hadnot -- Exodus. Choosing to be black : the ultimate white privilege? / Beverly Daniel Tatum ; White like me : race and identity through majority eyes / Tim Wise ; Traveling with white people / Colleen J. McElroy ; Race : a discussion in ten parts, plus a few moments of unsubstantiated theory and one inarguable fact / Kiini Ibura Salaam ; Funky fresh talented tenth / Touré ; On acting white : mother-daughter talk / Lisa Dodson, Odessa Dorian Cole ; Country music / Susan Straight ; One summer evening / Noel Ignatiev ; Spelling lesson / Carlton Winfrey ; Jasper, Texas elegy / Bernestine Singley ; All souls : civil rights from Southie to Soweto and back / Michael Patrick MacDonald ; Pictures in black and white / Hanna Griffiths
Subjects
- United States -- Race relations -- Anecdotes.
- Racism -- United States -- Anecdotes.
- African American authors -- Biography -- Anecdotes.
- African Americans -- Race identity -- Anecdotes.
- African Americans -- Social conditions -- Anecdotes.
- Authors, American -- Biography -- Anecdotes.
- White people -- Race identity -- United States -- Anecdotes.
- White people -- United States -- Social conditions -- Anecdotes.