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Beyond the white negro

Davis, Kimberly Chabot, 1968-

Beyond the white negro empathy and anti-racist reading / [electronic resource] : Kimberly Chabot Davis. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9780252096310 0252096312


Empathy.
African American arts--Influence.
Anti-racism--United States.
Whites--Attitudes.--United States


United States--Race relations.


Electronic books.

E184.A1 / D2828 2014

305.800973