Names we call home : autobiography on racial identity / edited by Becky Thompson and Sangeeta Tyagi.

Includes bibliographical references.

"When we are capable of stopping, we begin to see:" being white, seeing whiteness / Ruth Frankenberg -- Mrs. Brent / Gayle Pemberton -- Red and black in white America: discovering cross-border identities and other subversive activities / David Wellman -- Writing in search of a home: geography, culture, and language in the creation of racial identity / Sangeeta Tyagi -- Alice's little sister: the self concealed behind the self / Gloria Johnson-Powell -- Place and kinship: a Native American's identity before and after words / Donald Andrew Grinde, Jr. -- Locating Biafra: the words we wouldn't say / Faith Adiele -- Afro images: politics, fashion, and nostalgia / Angela Y. Davis -- Time traveling and border crossing: reflections on white identity / Becky Thompson -- A hyphenated identity / Harry Kitano -- Jews in the U.S.: the rising costs of whiteness / Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz -- Chattanooga black boy: identity and racism -- Calvin Hernton -- My dear niece / Pam Mitchell -- Oxydol poisoning / Earl Jackson, Jr. -- Writing life / Beth Brant -- Birth of a negation: a love letter -- Andrew Spieldenner -- Tippin' the furniture: an interview with Angela Maria Giudice / Elly Bulkin -- The breakdown of the bicultural mind / Cherríe Moraga -- Eating salt / Lisa Kahaleole Change Hall -- Turning the myths of black masculinity inside/out / Herb Green -- " Wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born" / Ramon S. Torrecilha -- Playing the devil's advocate: defending a multiracial identity in fractured community -- Sarah Willie -- Black women and the wilderness / Evelyn C. White -- Toward the light / Vickie Sears --- Waiting for a taxi / June Jordan.

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Names We Call Home is a ground-breaking collection of essays which articulate the dynamics of racial identity in contemporary society. The first volume of its kind, Names We Call Home offers autobiographical essays, poetry, and interviews to highlight the historical, social, and cultural influences that inform racial identity and make possible resistance to myriad forms of injustice.

English.

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