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Title When race becomes real : black and white writers confront their personal histories / edited by Bernestine Singley ; epilogue by Derrick Bell.
Publication Info. Chicago : Lawrence Hill Books, c2002.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  305.8 WHE    Check Shelves
Edition 1st ed.
Description xvi, 335 p. : ports. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction / by Bernestine Singley -- Genesis. Race story / Jim Schutze. Crazy sometimes / Leonard Pitts, Jr. Experiences and memories / Robert Cole. The 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 and 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 United States -- Race relations -- Anecdotes.
Racism -- United States -- Anecdotes.
African American authors -- Biography -- Anecdotes.
African Americans -- Race identity -- Anecdotes.
African Americans -- Social conditions -- Anecdotes.
Authors, American -- Biography -- Anecdotes.
Whites -- Race identity -- United States -- Anecdotes.
Whites -- United States -- Social conditions -- Anecdotes.
Added Author Singley, Bernestine.
Bell, Derrick A.
ISBN 155652448X (hard : alk. paper) : $26.95
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