Beyond the White Negro : Empathy and Anti-Racist Reading /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Davis, Kimberly Chabot, 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
White people > Attitudes.
Race relations.
Empathy.
Anti-racism.
African American arts > Influence.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
empathy.
Empathie.
Arts noirs americains > Influence.
Antiracisme > États-Unis.
Empathy
Anti-racism > United States.
White people > United States > Attitudes.
United States.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
United States > Race relations.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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