UID:
almafu_9959240981502883
Format:
1 online resource (273 p.)
ISBN:
0-252-07994-9
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0-252-09631-2
Content:
Critics often characterize white consumption of African American culture as a form of theft that echoes the fantasies of 1950s-era bohemians, or 'White Negroes,' who romanticized black culture as anarchic and sexually potent. In this work, Kimberly Chabot Davis claims such a view fails to describe the varied politics of racial crossover in the past fifteen years. Davis analyzes how white engagement with African American novels, film narratives, and hip-hop can help form anti-racist attitudes that may catalyze social change and racial justice.
Note:
Includes index.
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Introduction: cross-racial empathy: viewing the White self through Black eyes -- Wiggers or White allies? White hip-hop culture and racial sincerity -- Oprah, book clubs, and the promise and limitations of empathy -- Reading race and place: Boston book clubs and post-soul fiction -- Deconstructing White ways of seeing: interracial-conflict films and college-student viewers -- Conclusion: Black cultural encounters as a catalyst for divestment in White privilege.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-306-89080-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-252-03843-6
Language:
English
