When race becomes real : black and white writers confront their personal histories /

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Bibliographic Details
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint:Chicago, Ill. : Lawrence Hill Books, c2002.
Description:xvi, 335 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4811451
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Other authors / contributors:Singley, Bernestine.
Bell, Derrick, 1930-2011.
ISBN:155652448X (hard : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • I.. Genesis
  • Race Story
  • Crazy Sometimes
  • Experiences and Memories
  • The Night I Stopped Being a Negro
  • Son of the South
  • Talking White
  • Central Park Samaritan
  • It All Started with My Parents
  • II.. Fear and Longing
  • Race, Rage, and the Ace of Spades
  • To Make Them Stand in Fear
  • Passing
  • Black and White
  • For Colored Girls Who Have Resisted Homogenization When the Rainbow Ain't Enough
  • Anatomy of a Fairy Princess
  • A Rambling Response to the Play
  • Black, White, and Seeing Red All Over
  • Race Fatigue
  • III.. Exodus
  • Choosing to Be Black: The Ultimate White Privilege?
  • White Like Me: Race and Identity Through Majority Eyes
  • Traveling with White People
  • Race: A Discussion in Ten Parts, Plus a Few Moments of Unsubstantiated Theory and One Inarguable Fact
  • A Funky Fresh Talented Tenth
  • On Acting White: Mother-Daughter Talk
  • Country Music
  • One Summer Evening
  • Spelling Lesson
  • Jasper, Texas Elegy
  • All Souls: Civil Rights From Southie to Soweto and Back
  • Pictures in Black and White
  • Epilogue