Black for a day : white fantasies of race and empathy / Alisha Gaines.
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- 9781469632841
- 1469632845
- 9781469632858
- 1469632853
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
- Passing (Identity) -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Impersonation
- Empathy -- Political aspects
- African Americans -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- États-Unis -- Relations raciales -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Passing (Identité) -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Imitation
- Empathie -- Aspect politique
- Noirs américains -- Conditions sociales -- 20e siècle
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies
- African Americans -- Social conditions
- Impersonation
- Passing (Identity)
- Race relations
- United States
- 1900-1999
- 305.800973 23
- E185.625 .G35 2017eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- Epilogue : the last soul sister.
"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.
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