ISBN:
0585002673
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9780585002675
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xvi, 193 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Crossing the color line
DDC:
305.8
Keywords:
Racially mixed children Case studies
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United States
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Parent and child United States
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Racism United States
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Racially mixed children Case studies
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Parent and child
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Racism
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Racism
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Racially mixed children Case studies
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Parent and child
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Mothers of racially mixed children
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Parents of racially mixed children
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Prejudice
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United States
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United States
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Prejudice
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Parent-Child Relations
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Race Relations
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Family
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Parent and child
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Parents of racially mixed children
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Racially mixed children
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Racism
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Rassenfrage
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Interethnische Ehe
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Kind
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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Mothers of racially mixed children
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Case studies
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United States
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USA
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Electronic books
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Electronic books Case studies
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Fallstudiensammlung
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Erlebnisbericht
Abstract:
"Why do white people have vaginas?" asks Maureen Reddy's two-year-old son. "Why do boys have curly hair?" These are the questions Reddy grapples with on her journey, as a white mother of black children, toward an internalized understanding of race - particularly whiteness - and of racism. Moving from memoir to race theory, to literary analysis, to interviews with friends, Reddy places this personal journey in a broad cultural context. Reddy writes as a racial "insider" who stands outside accepted racial arrangements, a position that can afford unique insight into the many contradictions of those arrangements. She addresses attempts to cross the color line that divides blacks and whites; the meeting points of whiteness and blackness; the politics of feminism and anti-racism; loving blackness; mothering black children; racism in schools; and relationships among black and white women. Our culture is permeated by color. And whether we can sort out racial divisions will, Reddy feels, determine whether we survive as a society
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-189) and index. - Description based on print version record
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