ISBN:
9780307482297
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (357 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.8/00973
Keywords:
Whites--United States..
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Race awareness--United States..
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African Americans--Attitudes
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Electronic books
Abstract:
In this thought-provoking volume, David R. Roediger has brought together some of the most important black writers throughout history to explore the question: What does it really mean to be white in America?From folktales and slave narratives to contemporary essays, poetry, and fiction, black writers have long been among America's keenest students of white consciousness and white behavior, but until now much of this writing has been ignored. Black on White reverses this trend by presenting the work of more than fifty major figures, including James Baldwin, Derrick Bell, Ralph Ellison, W.E.B. Du Bois, bell hooks, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker to take a closer look at the many meanings of whiteness in our society.Rich in irony, artistry, passion, and common sense, these reflections on what Langston Hughes called "the ways of white folks" illustrate how whiteness as a racial identity derives its meaning not as a biological category but as a social construct designed to uphold racial inequality. Powerful and compelling, Black on White provides a much-needed perspective that is sure to have a major impact on the study of race and race relations in America.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Abstract:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I : Confronting Whiteness and Seeing Through Race -- W.E.B. Du Bois: Dialogue with a White Friend (1940) -- bell hooks: Representations of Whiteness in the Black Imagination (1992) -- David Walker: Whites as Heathens and Christians (1830) -- William Wells Brown: On Race and Change (1874) -- "Ethiop" (William J. Wilson): What Shall We Do with the White People? (1860) -- Mia Bay: The Color of Heaven (1996) -- Charles Johnson: Klansman's Prayer, cartoon (Undated) -- George S. Schuyler: Our White Folks (1927) -- J. A. Rogers: Debating the Senator (1917) -- Part II : Whiteness As Property: The Workings of Race -- Zora Neale Hurston: Blacks, Whites and Work (1935) -- Cheryl Harris: Whiteness as Property (1993) -- Amiri Baraka: White Wages (1978) -- Elma Stuckey: Enslaved (1976) -- Robert Hayden: Speech (1940) -- Langston Hughes: White Man (1936) -- Harry Haywood: Shadow of the Plantation (1948) -- Frank Marshall Davis: Snapshots of the Cotton South (1948) -- Derrick Bell: White Superiority in America (1988) -- Part III : The White World and Whiter America -- Toni Morrison: From Playing in the Dark (1992) -- Ralph Ellison: What America Would Be Like Without Blacks (1970) -- James Weldon Johnson: The Poor White Musician (1915) -- Adrian Piper: Vanilla Nightmares (1986) -- James Baldwin: On Being "White"... and Other Lies (1984) -- James Weldon Johnson: The White Witch (1935) -- W.E.B. Du Bois: The Souls of White Folk (1920) -- Part IV : Some White Folks -- W.E.B. Du Bois: Jefferson Davis as a Representative of Civilization (1890) -- Charles M. Payne: On Aaron Henry (1995) -- Toni Morrison: On Herman Melville (1988) -- Rudolph Fisher: The Caucasian Storms Harlem (1927) -- Greg Tate: Guerrilla Scholar on the Loose (1984) -- Nelson George: On White Negroes (1988).
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