Acting white : the curious history of a racial slur / Ron Christie.
نوع المادة : نصالناشر:New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2010الطبعات:1st edوصف:viii, 290 pages ; 25 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780312599461 (alk. paper)
- 0312599463 (alk. paper)
- E185.625 .C495 2010
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | E185.625 .C495 2010 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30010011107955 | ||
كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | E185.625 .C495 2010 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.2 | المتاح | 30010011107965 |
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E185.625 .B375 2011 Darkening mirrors : imperial representation in Depression-era African American performance / | E185.625 .C37 1996 From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich : race in the conservative counterrevolution, 1963-1994 | E185.625 .C495 2010 Acting white : the curious history of a racial slur / | E185.625 .C495 2010 Acting white : the curious history of a racial slur / | E185.625 F543 2010 Resonances of slavery in race/gender relations : shadow at the heart of American politics / | E185.625 .H865 2005 Race, gender, and the politics of skin tone / | E185.625 .H865 2005 Race, gender, and the politics of skin tone / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue : a new day or deja vu? -- Uncle Tom's cabin : the genesis of acting white -- Booker T. Washington : a turn of the century Uncle Tom acting white? -- Plessy volume Ferguson : a long journey towards equality -- W.E.B. Dubois : the souls of Black folk and the roar of the Niagara movement -- The rise of Marcus Garvey versus the roar of the Niagara movement : who best to lead -- Blacks forward at the dawn of the Harlem Rennaissance? -- Brown vs. Board of Education : a milestone to equality -- World (Martin Luther King's the measure of a man) versus separate and unequal -- (Malcolm X's the end of white world supremacy) -- Black power, moral relativism and radical chic -- Affirmative action -- The divide : upwardly mobile Black America and the urban poor -- Justice Clarence Thomas : an Uncle Tom acting white by selling-out? -- The president who happens to be Black versus a Black president : the coming rise of colorless values, or not? -- The death of a racial slur : the new underground railroad : transporting Black people to real equality -- Appendix of primary documents: Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Exposition address -- Plessy volume Ferguson -- Brown and others volume Board of Education of Topeka et al -- Barack Obama's keynote address at the Democratic National Convention.
A history of the slanderous phrase "acting white" demonstrates the backlash against successful, well-mannered, or well-educated African Americans while tracing the history of the insult's usage from "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to Bill Cosby's controversial NAACP speech in 2004.