Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy - Image 1

£60.10

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

Name: Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy
Brand: University of North Carolina Press
Price: 61.4 GBP
Availability: InStock

Anthologies

Price data last checked 10 day(s) ago - will refresh soon

View at Amazon

Price History & Forecast

Last 81 days • 81 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 81 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £60 (75 days, 92.6%)

Price range: £60 - £61

Price levels: 2 different prices over 81 days

Description

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.

Product Specifications

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

Barcode

No barcode data available

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

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Becoming a White Antiracist - Stylus Publishing Book

Fading Out Black and White: Racial Ambiguity in American Culture

In Search of Brightest Africa: Reimagining the Dark Continent in American Culture, 1884-1936 (Race in the Atlantic World 1700-1900): 7

Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840

Understanding Blackness through Performance: Contemporary Arts and the Representation of Identity

Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race in America

Everyday Forms of Whiteness: Understanding Race in a 'Post-Racial' World (Perspectives on a Multiracial America)

Dancing on the Color Line: African American Tricksters in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

How Blacks Built America: Labor, Culture, Freedom, and Democracy

The Construction of Whiteness: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Race Formation and the Meaning of a White Identity

Lynching: Violence, Rhetoric, and American Identity (Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series)

Racialized Consciousness: Mapping the Genealogy of Racial Identity and Manifestations in Socio-Political Discourses

Protecting Whiteness: Whitelash and the Rejection of Racial Equality

Act Like You Know – African–American Autobiography & White Identity

Southern History across the Color Line (Gender and American Culture)

The African-German Experience: Critical Essays

Post-Soul Satire: Black Identity after Civil Rights

Black and More Than Black: African American Fiction in the Post Era (Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies)

Routledge - Everyday Practice of Race in America Book

Nat Turner in Black and White: Race, Trauma, and the American Cultural Imaginary

Reflections: An Anthology of African-American Philosophy

The White Racial Frame: Centuries of Racial Framing and Counter-Framing

Who is White?: Latinos, Asians and the New Black/nonblack Divide

Connexions: Histories of Race and Sex in North America