Blinded by the Whites : Why Race Still Matters in 21st-Century America /

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The scholar and author posits that the election of Barack Obama gave political currency to the (white) idea that Americans live in a post-racial society. But the persistence of racial profiling, economic inequality between Blacks and whites, disproportionate numbers of Black prisoners, and dispariti...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ikard, David, 1972- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Race relations.
Mass media and race relations.
American fiction > African American authors.
African Americans > Social conditions.
African Americans in literature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Medias et relations raciales > États-Unis.
Noirs americains dans la litterature.
Noirs americains > Conditions sociales > 21e siecle.
Roman americain > Auteurs noirs americains > Histoire et critique.
Mass media and race relations > United States.
African Americans > Social conditions > 21st century.
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
United States.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire > 21e siecle.
United States > Race relations > History > 21st century.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : What does Black empowerment in the twenty-first century look like?
  • White supremacy under fire : the unrewarded perspective in Edward P. Jones's The Known World
  • Easier said than done : making Black feminism transformative for Black men
  • All joking aside : Black men, sexual assault, and displaced racial angst in Paul Beatty's The White Boy Shuffle
  • Boys to men : getting personal about Black manhood, sexuality, and empowerment
  • Rejecting Goldilocks : the crisis of normative white beauty for Black girls
  • "Stop making the rest of us look bad" : how class matters in the attacks against the movie Precious
  • Epilogue : So what does it all mean?

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