| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xvi, 335 pages : portraits ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
This riveting collection of personal stories, all commissioned specifically for this book, reveals the racial hopes, fears, fury and triumphs of black and white writers of all stripes. These stories refuse to tiptoe around the issue, don't wax nostalgic, preach sermons, or act as expert witnesses; in this book they are willing, for the first time, to bare their souls and tell the truth. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Bernestine Singley -- Genesis. Race story / Jim Schutze. Crazy sometimes / Leonard Pitts, Jr. Experiences and memories / Robert Coles. Night I stopped being a negro / Les Payne. Son of the south / John Seigenthaler, Sr. Talking white / Kimberly Springer. Central Park samaritan / Natalie Angier. It all started with my parents / Lucy Gibson -- Fear and longing. Race, rage, and the Ace of Spades / Julianne Malveaux. To make them stand in fear / David Bradley. Passing / Theresa M. Towner. Black and white / Robert Jensen. For colored girls who have resisted homogenization when the rainbow ain't enough / Joycelyn K. Moody. Anatomy of a fairy princess / Patricia J. Williams. A rambling response to the play Marie Christine / Kalamu ya Salaam. Black, white, and seeing red all over / Shawn E. Rhea. Race fatigue / Ira J. Hadnot -- Exodus. Choosing to be black : the ultimate white privilege? / Beverly Daniel Tatum. White like me : race and identity through majority eyes / Tim Wise. Traveling with white people / Colleen J. McElroy. Race : a discussion in ten parts, plus a few moments of unsubstantiated theory and one inarguable fact / Kiini Ibura Salaam. A funky fresh talented tenth / Touré. On acting white : mother-daughter talk / Lisa Dodson, Odessa Dorian Cole. Country music / Susan Straight. One summer evening / Noel Ignatiev. Spelling lesson / Carlton Winfrey. Jasper, Texas elegy / Bernestine Singley. All souls : civil rights from Southie to Soweto and back / Michael Patrick MacDonald. Pictures in black and white / Hanna Griffiths. |
| Subject |
Authors, American -- Biography. |
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United States -- Race relations -- Anecdotes.
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United States. |
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Race relations. |
| Genre/Form |
Anecdotes.
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| Subject |
Racism -- United States -- Anecdotes.
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Racism. |
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African American authors -- Biography. |
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African Americans -- Race identity -- Anecdotes.
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African Americans -- Race identity. |
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African Americans -- Social conditions -- Anecdotes.
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African Americans -- Social conditions. |
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African American authors -- Biography -- Anecdotes.
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Authors, American -- Biography -- Anecdotes.
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White people -- Race identity -- United States -- Anecdotes.
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White people -- Race identity. |
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White people -- United States -- Social conditions -- Anecdotes.
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White people. |
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Social conditions. |
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Racism. |
| Genre/Form |
Anecdotes.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Singley, Bernestine.
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| ISBN |
155652448X alkaline paper |
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