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When race becomes real : black and white writers confront their personal histories
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- Creator
- edited by Bernestine Singley ; epilogue by Derrick Bell
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- First edition
- Chicago : Lawrence Hill Books, [2002]
- ©2002
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 335 pages : portraits ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781556524486, 155652448X
- OCLC
- ocm49249664
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Introduction / by Bernestine Singley -- Genesis. Race story / Jim Schutze. Crazy sometimes / Leonard Pitts, Jr. Experiences and memories / Robert Cole. The 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. A 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. A funky fresh talented tenth / Touré. On acting white : mother-daughter talk / Lisa Dodson and 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
- 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.
- United States -- Race relations -- Anecdotes.