| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Good niggerhood : Ray Sprigle's Dixie terror -- The missing day : John Howard Griffin and the specter of Joseph Franklin -- A secondhand kind of terror : Grace Halsell and the ironies of empathy -- Empathy TV : family and racial intimacy on Black. White. |
| Summary |
"In 1948, journalist Ray Sprigle traded his whiteness to live as a black man for four weeks. A little over a decade later, John Howard Griffin famously 'became' black as well, traveling the American South in search of a certain kind of racial understanding. Contemporary history is littered with the surprisingly complex stories of white people passing as black, and here Alisha Gaines constructs a unique genealogy of 'empathetic racial impersonation' - white liberals walking in the fantasy of black skin under the alibi of cross-racial empathy. At the end of their experiments in 'blackness, ' Gaines argues that these debatably well-meaning white impersonators arrived at little more than false consciousness"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
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United States. |
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Race relations. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Passing (Identity) -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Passing (Identity) |
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Impersonation.
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Impersonation. |
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Empathy -- Political aspects.
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Empathy. |
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African Americans -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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African Americans -- Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| ISBN |
9781469632841 (electronic book) |
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1469632845 (electronic book) |
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9781469632827 |
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1469632829 |
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9781469632834 |
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1469632837 |
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