TY  - GEN
T1  - Crossing the color line : race, parenting, and culture
T2  - Black women writers series.
A1  - Reddy, Maureen T.
LA  - English
PP  - New Brunswick, N.J.
PB  - Rutgers University Press
YR  - 1994
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm42328546
AB  - "Why do white people have vaginas?" asks Maureen Reddy's two-year-old son. "Why do boys have curly hair?" These are the questions Reddy grapples with on her journey, as a white mother of black children, toward an internalized understanding of race - particularly whiteness - and of racism. Moving from memoir to race theory, to literary analysis, to interviews with friends, Reddy places this personal journey in a broad cultural context. Reddy writes as a racial "insider" who stands outside accepted racial arrangements, a position that can afford unique insight into the many contradictions of those arrangements. She addresses attempts to cross the color line that divides blacks and whites; the meeting points of whiteness and blackness; the politics of feminism and anti-racism; loving blackness; mothering black children; racism in schools; and relationships among black and white women. Our culture is permeated by color. And whether we can sort out racial divisions will, Reddy feels, determine whether we survive as a society
OP  - 193
CN  - HQ777.9 .R43 1994eb
SN  - 0585002673
SN  - 9780585002675
SN  - 081352105X
KW  - Multiracial children : United States : Case studies.
KW  - Mothers of multiracial children.
KW  - Parents of multiracial children.
KW  - Parent and child : United States.
KW  - Racism : United States.
KW  - Parent and child.
KW  - Families.
KW  - Nuclear families.
KW  - Prejudices.
KW  - Parent-Child Relations
KW  - Race Relations
KW  - Family
KW  - Prejudice
KW  - Nuclear Family
KW  - United States
KW  - Enfants métis : États-Unis : Études de cas.
KW  - Mères d'enfants métissés.
KW  - Parents et enfants : États-Unis.
KW  - Racisme : États-Unis.
KW  - Parents et enfants.
KW  - Familles.
KW  - Préjugés.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Anthropology : Cultural.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Discrimination & Race Relations.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Minority Studies.
KW  - Prejudices
KW  - Nuclear families
KW  - Families
KW  - Mothers of multiracial children
KW  - Parent and child
KW  - Parents of multiracial children
KW  - Racially mixed children
KW  - Racism
KW  - Rassenfrage
KW  - Interethnische Ehe
KW  - Kind
KW  - USA
KW  - Case studies
ER  -