ACT Like You Know: African-American Autobiography and White Identity
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Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, W.E.B. DuBois, Zora Neale Hurston, Malcolm X--their words speak firmly, eloquently, personally of the impact of white America on the lives of African-Americans. Black autobiographical discourses, from the earliest slave narratives to the most contemporary urban raps, have each in their own way gauged and confronted the character of white society. For Crispin Sartwell, as philosopher, cultural critic, and white male,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0226735273
ISBN13:9780226735276
Release Date:July 1998
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:222 Pages
Weight:0.80 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"
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Honesty and Racism: An Odd Mix
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
Crispin Sartwell's book is not only bravely honest, but it also causes readers to be honest with themselves. As a white man in the south who both feared and romanticized Americans of African descent, I found Crispin's book to be illustrative not only of the epistemology that he frankly addresses, but of my own hidden feelings. Rarely can I point to a single book and say that it changed how I view myself, but this one has.
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