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Acting white : the curious history of a racial slur / Ron Christie.
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- Author(s): Christie, Ron, 1969-
- Language:
English- Publication Information:
New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2010.- Publication Date:
2010- Physical Description:
viii, 290 pages ; 25 cm.- Publication Type:
Book- Document Type:
Bibliographies; Non-fiction- Subject Terms:
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- Availability: 2 Holdings
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- Additional Information
- Publication Information: First edition
- Content Notes: Prologue : a new day or deja vu? -- Uncle Tom's cabin : the genesis of acting white -- Booker T. Washington : a turn of the century Uncle Tom acting white? -- Plessy v. Ferguson : a long journey towards equality -- W.E.B. Dubois : the souls of Black folk and the roar of the Niagara movement -- The rise of Marcus Garvey versus the roar of the Niagara movement : who best to lead -- Blacks forward at the dawn of the Harlem Rennaissance? -- Brown vs. Board of Education : a milestone to equality -- World (Martin Luther King's the measure of a man) versus separate and unequal -- (Malcolm X's the end of white world supremacy) -- Black power, moral relativism and radical chic -- Affirmative action -- The divide : upwardly mobile Black America and the urban poor -- Justice Clarence Thomas : an Uncle Tom acting white by selling-out? -- The president who happens to be Black versus a Black president : the coming rise of colorless values, or not? -- The death of a racial slur : the new underground railroad : transporting Black people to real equality -- Appendix of primary documents: Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Exposition address -- Plessy v. Ferguson -- Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al -- Barack Obama's keynote address at the Democratic National Convention.
- Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
1 - ISBN: 9780312599461 (alk. paper)
0312599463 (alk. paper) - Accession Number: 2010029259
- Accession Number: 606785220
- Accession Number: ccp.487699
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- Call Number: 305.8 CHRISTIE
- Branch: Main Library - Non-Fiction Area
- Call Number: 305.8 CHRISTIE
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