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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825067203321

Autore

Lazarre Jane

Titolo

Beyond the whiteness of whiteness : memoir of a white mother of black sons / / Jane Lazarre

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2016

ISBN

0-8223-7414-5

Edizione

[Twentieth anniversary edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (179 p.)

Disciplina

306.874/3

Soggetti

Mothers and sons - United States

Racially mixed children - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Richmond Museum of the Confederacy -- Color blind: the whiteness of whiteness -- Passing over -- Reunions, retellings, refrains -- A color with no precise name.

Sommario/riassunto

In this moving memoir Jane Lazarre, a white Jewish mother, describes her experience being married to an African American man and raising two sons as she learns, from family experience, teaching, and her studies, about the realities of racism in America.