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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49249664 Title: When race becomes real : Black and White writers confront their personal histories Author: Bernestine Singley Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Lawrence Hill Books, ©2002. ISBN/ISSN: 155652448X 9781556524486 OCLC:49249664

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When race becomes real : Black and White writers confront their personal histories

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When race becomes real : Black and White writers confront their personal histories

Author:	Bernestine Singley
Publisher:	Chicago, Ill. : Lawrence Hill Books, ©2002.
Edition/Format:	Book : Biography : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
Summary:	This riveting collection of personal stories, all commissioned specifically for this book, reveals the racial hopes, fears, fury and triumphs of black and white writers of all stripes. These stories refuse to tiptoe around the issue, don't wax nostalgic, preach sermons, or act as expert witnesses; in this book they are willing, for the first time, to bare their souls and tell the truth.
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Material Type:	Biography, Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	Bernestine Singley Find more information about:
ISBN:	155652448X 9781556524486
OCLC Number:	49249664
Description:	xvi, 335 p. : ports. ; 24 cm.
Contents:	Introduction / Bernestine Singley -- Genesis. Race story / Jim Schutze. Crazy sometimes / Leonard Pitts, Jr. Experiences and memories / Robert Coles. The night I stopped being a negro / Les Payne. Son of the south / John Seigenthaler, Sr. Talking white / Kimberly Springer. Central Park samaritan / Natalie Angier. It all started with my parents / Lucy Gibson -- Fear and longing. Race, rage, and the Ace of Spades / Julianne Malveaux. To make them stand in fear / David Bradley. Passing / Theresa M. Towner. Black and white / Robert Jensen. For colored girls who have resisted homogenization when the rainbow ain't enough / Joycelyn K. Moody. Anatomy of a fairy princess / Patricia J. Williams. A rambling response to the play Marie Christine / Kalamu ya Salaam. Black, white, and seeing red all over / Shawn E. Rhea. Race fatigue / Ira J. Hadnot -- Exodus. Choosing to be black : the ultimate white privilege? / Beverly Daniel Tatum. White like me : race and identity through majority eyes / Tim Wise. Traveling with white people / Colleen J. McElroy. Race : a discussion in ten parts, plus a few moments of unsubstantiated theory and one inarguable fact / Kiini Ibura Salaam. A funky fresh talented tenth / Touré. On acting white : mother-daughter talk / Lisa Dodson, Odessa Dorian Cole. Country music / Susan Straight. One summer evening / Noel Ignatiev. Spelling lesson / Carlton Winfrey. Jasper, Texas elegy / Bernestine Singley. All souls : civil rights from Southie to Soweto and back / Michael Patrick MacDonald. Pictures in black and white / Hanna Griffiths.
Responsibility:	edited by Bernestine Singley ; epilogue by Derrick Bell.
More information:	Table of contents

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This riveting collection of personal stories, all commissioned specifically for this book, reveals the racial hopes, fears, fury and triumphs of black and white writers of all stripes. These stories refuse to tiptoe around the issue, don't wax nostalgic, preach sermons, or act as expert witnesses; in this book they are willing, for the first time, to bare their souls and tell the truth.

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