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University of North Carolina Press Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy

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Brand: University of North Carolina Press
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Review Gaines has an eye for the telling detail . . . . Black for a Day has a hopeful, activist spirit. By showing how and why racial empathy went wrong, Gaines suggests some ways to get it right.--Journal of American HistoryGaine's book is well written and compelling.--The Journal of Southern HistoryChronicles white impersonations of blackness in the US, revealing the ways experiments in racial empathy obscure the structural character of racism and instead frame personal experiences of otherness and individual awakening as racial progress. Highly recommended.--Choice Product Description 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, these debatably well-meaning white impersonators arrived at little more than false consciousness. Complicating the histories of black-to-white passing and blackface minstrelsy, Gaines uses an interdisciplinary approach rooted in literary studies, race theory, and cultural studies to reveal these sometimes maddening, and often absurd, experiments of racial impersonation. By examining this history of modern racial impersonation, Gaines shows that there was, and still is, a faulty cultural logic that places enormous faith in the idea that empathy is all that white Americans need to make a significant difference in how to racially navigate our society. About the Author Alisha Gaines is assistant professor of English at Florida State University.

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Brand: University of North Carolina Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1469632829
Category: Books > Subjects > Literature & Fiction > Anthologies
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 08 May 2017
Listed Since: 12 October 2016

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