03024nam 2200673 a 450 991079230410332120230607230758.01-282-65856-597866126585631-59213-801-2(CKB)2670000000028654(EBL)547463(OCoLC)648711496(SSID)ssj0000431079(PQKBManifestationID)11296538(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000431079(PQKBWorkID)10456767(PQKB)11751732(MiAaPQ)EBC547463(MdBmJHUP)muse15627(Au-PeEL)EBL547463(CaPaEBR)ebr10397311(CaONFJC)MIL265856(EXLCZ)99267000000002865420011107d2002 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrWhite boy[electronic resource] a memoir /Mark D. NaisonPhiladelphia Temple University Press20021 online resource (241 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-56639-942-4 1-56639-941-6 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 EdgeHow 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,African AmericansStudy and teaching (Higher)New York (State)New YorkHistory20th centuryCollege teachersNew York (State)New YorkBiographyMen, WhiteNew York (State)New YorkBiographyJewsNew York (State)New YorkBiographyBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Race relationsBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)BiographyNew York (N.Y.)Race relationsNew York (N.Y.)BiographyAfrican AmericansStudy and teaching (Higher)HistoryCollege teachersMen, WhiteJews974.7/23Naison Mark1946-1501429MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910792304103321White boy3786186UNINA