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

• Autore: Davis Kimberly Chabot <1968->
• Pubblicazione: Urbana, Illinois : , : University of Illinois Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.800973
• Soggetto topico: White people - United States - Attitudes; Anti-racism - United States; African American arts - Influence; Empathy
• Soggetto geografico: United States Race relations
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Beyond the white negro
• ISBN: 0-252-07994-9; 0-252-09631-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827887903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II