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Acting white : the curious history of a racial slur
- Author
- Christie, Ron, 1969-
- Title
- Acting white : the curious history of a racial slur / Ron Christie.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Published
- New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2010.
- Description
- viii, 290 p. ; 25 cm.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- 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.
- Summary
- A history of the slanderous phrase "acting white" demonstrates the backlash against successful, well-mannered, or well-educated African Americans while tracing the history of the insult's usage from "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to Bill Cosby's controversial NAACP speech in 2004.
- Subject headings
- African Americans--Attitudes. White people--United States--Attitudes. Invective--United States. Communication--Social aspects--United States. Social interaction--United States. United States--Race relations--Psychological aspects.
- ISBN
- 9780312599461 (alk. paper) 0312599463 (alk. paper)