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Beyond the white negro : empathy and anti-racist reading /

Critics often characterize white consumption of African American culture as a form of theft that echoes the fantasies of 1950s-era bohemians, or 'White Negroes, ' who romanticized black culture as anarchic and sexually potent. In this work, Kimberly Chabot Davis claims such a view fails to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Davis, Kimberly Chabot, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2014]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: cross-racial empathy: viewing the White self through Black eyes
  • Wiggers or White allies? White hip-hop culture and racial sincerity
  • Oprah, book clubs, and the promise and limitations of empathy
  • Reading race and place: Boston book clubs and post-soul fiction
  • Deconstructing White ways of seeing: interracial-conflict films and college-student viewers
  • Conclusion: Black cultural encounters as a catalyst for divestment in White privilege.