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 LAW Johnny C. Burris Collection - 3rd Floor  E185.625 .C495 2010    AVAILABLE  
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Author Christie, Ron, 1969-
Title Acting white : the curious history of a racial slur / Ron Christie.
Edition First edition.
OCLC 606785220
ISBN 9780312599461
0312599463
Publisher New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2010.
Description viii, 290 pages ; 25 cm
LC Subject heading/s African Americans -- Attitudes.
White people -- United States -- Attitudes.
Invective -- United States.
Communication -- Social aspects -- United States.
Social interaction -- United States.
Other
Subject heading/s		 African Americans -- Attitudes. (OCoLC)fst00799565
Communication -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00870009
Invective. (OCoLC)fst00977987
Race relations -- Psychological aspects. (OCoLC)fst01086520
Social interaction. (OCoLC)fst01122562
Whites -- Attitudes. (OCoLC)fst01174817
Schwarze. (DE-588)4116433-7
Verhalten. (DE-588)4062860-7
Schwarze. (DE-601)104219890
Verhalten. (DE-601)104318031
LC Subject heading/s United States -- Race relations -- Psychological aspects.
Other
Subject heading/s		 United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
USA. (DE-588)4078704-7
USA. (DE-601)106076612
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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 Renaissance? -- 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.
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