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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786525303321

Autore

Davis Kimberly Chabot <1968->

Titolo

Beyond the white negro : empathy and anti-racist reading / / Kimberly Chabot Davis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, Illinois : , : University of Illinois Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-252-07994-9

0-252-09631-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Disciplina

305.800973

Soggetti

White people - United States - Attitudes

Anti-racism - United States

African American arts - Influence

Empathy

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: cross-racial empathy: viewing the White self through Black eyes -- Wiggers or White allies? White hip-hop culture and racial sincerity -- Oprah, book clubs, and the promise and limitations of empathy -- Reading race and place: Boston book clubs and post-soul fiction -- Deconstructing White ways of seeing: interracial-conflict films and college-student viewers -- Conclusion: Black cultural encounters as a catalyst for divestment in White privilege.

Sommario/riassunto

Critics often characterize white consumption of African American culture as a form of theft that echoes the fantasies of 1950s-era bohemians, or 'White Negroes,' who romanticized black culture as anarchic and sexually potent. In this work, Kimberly Chabot Davis claims such a view fails to describe the varied politics of racial crossover in the past fifteen years. Davis analyzes how white engagement with African American novels, film narratives, and hip-hop can help form anti-racist attitudes that may catalyze social change and racial justice.