| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 193 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Black women writers series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-189) and index. |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Racially mixed children -- United States -- Case studies.
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Racially mixed children. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Subject |
Parent and child -- United States.
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Parent and child. |
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Racism -- United States.
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Racism. |
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Parent-Child Relations. |
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Race Relations. |
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Family. |
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Prejudice. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Racism. |
| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Reddy, Maureen T. Crossing the color line. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©1994 081352105X (DLC) 94000535 (OCoLC)29792516 |
| ISBN |
0585002673 (electronic book) |
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9780585002675 (electronic book) |
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