Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs /

In this incredibly timely book, David Ikard dismantles popular white supremacist tropes, which effectively devalue black life and trivialize black oppression. Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs investigates the tenacity and cultural capital of white redemption narratives in literat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ikard, David (Autor)
Otros Autores: Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2017]
Temas:
African Americans > Social conditions.
Racism > United States.
Racism > United States.
Slavery > United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
black identity.
normative power.
privilege.
racism.
white identity.
white nationalism.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword. Racial Realism Redux
  • Introduction
  • 1. Good Slave Masters Don't Exist: Lovable Racists and the Crisis of Authorship in Twelve Years a Slave
  • 2. Constituting the Crime: White Innocence as an Apparatus of Oppression
  • 3. "We Have More to Fear than Racism that Announces Itself": Distraction as a Strategy to Oppress
  • 4. "Only Tired I Was, Was Tired of Giving In": Rosa Parks, Magical Negroes, and the Whitewashing of Black Struggle
  • 5. Santa Claus Is White and Jesus Is Too: Era(c)ing White Myths for the Health and Well-Being of Our Children
  • Coda
  • Notes
  • Index

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