Blinded by the whites : why race still matters in 21st-century America /
The scholar and author posits that the election of Barack Obama gave political currency to the (white) idea that Americans live in a post-racial society. But the persistence of racial profiling, economic inequality between Blacks and whites, disproportionate numbers of Black prisoners, and dispariti...
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| Định dạng: | Licensed eBooks |
| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[2013]
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| Loạt: | Blacks in the diaspora.
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=639887 |
Mục lục:
- Introduction : What does Black empowerment in the twenty-first century look like?
- White supremacy under fire : the unrewarded perspective in Edward P. Jones's The Known World
- Easier said than done : making Black feminism transformative for Black men
- All joking aside : Black men, sexual assault, and displaced racial angst in Paul Beatty's The White Boy Shuffle
- Boys to men : getting personal about Black manhood, sexuality, and empowerment
- Rejecting Goldilocks : the crisis of normative white beauty for Black girls
- "Stop making the rest of us look bad" : how class matters in the attacks against the movie Precious
- Epilogue : So what does it all mean?