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Abandoning the Black Hero is the first book to examine the postwar African American white-life novel-novels with white protagonists written by African Americans. These fascinating works have been understudied despite having been written by such defining figures in the tradition as Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Ann Petry, and Chester Himes, as well as lesser known but formerly best-selling authors Willard Motley and Frank Yerby. John C. Charles argues that these fictions have been overlooked because they deviate from two critical suppositions: that black literature is always about black life and that when it represents whiteness, it must attack white supremacy. The authors are, however, quite sympathetic in the treatment of their white protagonists, which Charles contends should be read not as a failure of racial pride but instead as a strategy for claiming creative freedom, expansive moral authority, and critical agency. In an era when "Negro writers" were expected to protest, their sympathetic treatment of white suffering grants these authors a degree of racial privacy previously unavailable to them. White writers, after all, have the privilege of racial privacy because they are never pressured to write only about white life. Charles reveals that the freedom to abandon the "Negro problem" encouraged these authors to explore a range of new genres and themes, generating a strikingly diverse body of novels that significantly revise our understanding of mid-twentieth-century black writing.

American fiction --- African Americans --- Whites in literature. --- Race in literature. --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Intellectual life --- Whites in literature --- White people in literature.

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This book critically examines nine pre-service teacher candidates and the author's experience to explore the ways in which white educators manifest understandings of white racial identity and professional choice through oral narratives. Ultimately the text proposes a new, non-developmental model for thinking about white racial identity, while aiming to help teacher educators and teachers to work against the privileges of whiteness so as to better engage students in culturally relevant ways.

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How is it that recipients of white privilege deny the role they play in reproducing racial inequality? Racing for Innocence addresses this question by examining the backlash against affirmative action in the late 1980's and early 1990's-just as courts, universities, and other institutions began to end affirmative action programs. This book recounts the stories of elite legal professionals at a large corporation with a federally mandated affirmative action program, as well as the cultural narratives about race, gender, and power in the news media and Hollywood films. Though...

Affirmative action programs - United States - Public opinion. --- Collective memory - United States. --- Lawyers - United States - Attitudes. --- Mass media and public opinion - United States. --- Public opinion - United States. --- Racism - United States. --- United States - Race relations. --- Whites - Race identity - United States. --- Whites - United States - Attitudes. --- Women lawyers - United States - Attitudes. --- Affirmative action programs --- Whites --- Lawyers --- Women lawyers --- Racism --- Mass media and public opinion --- Collective memory --- Public opinion --- Commerce --- Business & Economics --- Marketing & Sales --- Attitudes --- Race identity --- Public opinion. --- Attitudes. --- United States --- Race relations. --- Collective remembrance --- Common memory --- Cultural memory --- Emblematic memory --- Historical memory --- National memory --- Public memory --- Social memory --- Women as lawyers --- Advocates --- Attorneys --- Bar --- Barristers --- Jurists --- Legal profession --- Solicitors --- Equal employment opportunity --- Equal opportunity in employment --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Race question --- Memory --- Social psychology --- Group identity --- National characteristics --- Representation in administrative proceedings --- Discrimination in employment --- Personnel management --- Minorities --- Employment --- Persons --- White persons --- Ethnology --- Caucasian race --- White people

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Whites --- Racism in popular culture --- Minstrel shows --- Blackface entertainers --- Black-face entertainers --- Entertainers, Blackface --- Minstrels (Blackface entertainers) --- Entertainers --- Popular culture --- African American minstrel shows --- Blackfaced minstrel shows --- Negro minstrel shows --- African Americans in the performing arts --- Revues --- Vaudeville --- Race identity --- Social aspects --- History. --- United States --- Race relations --- American minstrelsy --- Minstrelsy --- Minstrelsy, American --- Blackfaced entertainers --- Blackface minstrel shows

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"This book is a unique study of race and racism across two centuries in the hinterland of the upper South. Its implications are at once depressingly familiar and distinctly fresh." -W. Fitzhugh Brundage, author of Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930From the earliest days when slaves were brought to western Kentucky, the descendants of both slaves and slave owners in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, have continued to inhabit the same social and historic space. Part ethnography and part historical narrative, Been Coming through Some Hard Times offers a penetrating look

Whites --- African Americans --- Collective memory --- Racism --- White people --- White persons --- Ethnology --- Caucasian race --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Blacks --- Collective remembrance --- Common memory --- Cultural memory --- Emblematic memory --- Historical memory --- National memory --- Public memory --- Social memory --- Memory --- Social psychology --- Group identity --- National characteristics --- Bias, Racial --- Race bias --- Race prejudice --- Racial bias --- Prejudices --- Anti-racism --- Critical race theory --- Race relations --- History. --- Christian County (Ky.) --- Hopkinsville (Ky.) --- Hopkinsville, Ky. --- Christian Co., Ky. --- Black people