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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459539603321

Autore

Naison Mark <1946->

Titolo

White boy [[electronic resource] ] : a memoir / / Mark D. Naison

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2002

ISBN

1-282-65856-5

9786612658563

1-59213-801-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

974.7/23

Soggetti

African Americans - Study and teaching (Higher) - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century

College teachers - New York (State) - New York

Men, White - New York (State) - New York

Jews - New York (State) - New York

Electronic books.

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Race relations

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Biography

New York (N.Y.) Race relations

New York (N.Y.) Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Crown Heights in the 1950's; 2. Race Conscious; 3. Looking Down on Harlem; 4. Meeting Ruthie; 5. Contested Territory; 6. Ball of Confusion; 7. Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide; 8. Bringing the War Home; 9. A White Man in Black Studies; 10. Riders on the Storm; 11. Close to the Edge

Sommario/riassunto

How does a Jewish boy who spent the bulk of his childhood on the basketball courts of Brooklyn wind up teaching in one of the city's pioneering black studies departments? Naison's odyssey begins as Brooklyn public schools respond to a new wave of Black migrants and Caribbean immigrants, and established residents flee to virtually all-white parts of the city or suburbs. Already alienated by his parents' stance on race issues and their ambitions for him, he has started on a



separate ideological path by the time he enters Columbia College. Once he embarks on a long-term interracial relationship,