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Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy Alisha Gaines
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Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy
Alisha Gaines
"In 1948, journalist Ray Sprigle traded his whiteness to live as a black man for four weeks. A little over a decade later, John Howard Griffin famously 'became' black as well, traveling the American South in search of a certain kind of racial understanding. Contemporary history is littered with the surprisingly complex stories of white people passing as black, and here Alisha Gaines constructs a unique genealogy of 'empathetic racial impersonation' - white liberals walking in the fantasy of black skin under the alibi of cross-racial empathy. At the end of their experiments in 'blackness,' Gaines argues that these debatably well-meaning white impersonators arrived at little more than false consciousness"
232 pages, 12 halftones
| Mídia | Livros Paperback Book (Livro de capa flexível e brochura) |
| Lançado | 8 de maio de 2017 |
| ISBN13 | 9781469632834 |
| Editoras | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Páginas | 232 |
| Dimensões | 233 × 156 × 18 mm · 358 g |
| Idioma | Inglês |
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