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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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2014]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.