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White Lies / Maurice Berger

Public ISBD Title : White Lies : Race and the Myths of Whiteness Material Type: printed text Authors: Maurice Berger, Author Publisher: Farrar, Giroux and Strauss Publication Date: 1999 ISBN (or other code): 978-0-374-52715-0 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Biography and personal stories Race/Anti-Racism Abstract: Maurice Berger grew up hypersensitized to race in the charged environment of New York City in the sixties. His father was a Jewish liberal who worshipped Martin Luther King Jr., his mother a dark-skinned Sephardic Jew who hated black people. Berger himself was one of the few white kids in his Lower East Side housing project. Berger's unusual experience--and his determination to search the subject of race for its multiple and intricate meanings--makes White Lies a fresh and startling book. In it, Berger juxtaposes a series of brilliant short takes about the politics of race with personal and often disturbing vignettes about his own racial coming-of-age. These, in turn, are amplified by other voices and points of view: the words of ordinary people coping with fears and anxieties about race, and passages deftly drawn from the work of James Baldwin, Roland Barthes, Toni Morrison, and other writers. White Lies : Race and the Myths of Whiteness [printed text] / Maurice Berger, Author . - [S.l.] : Farrar, Giroux and Strauss, 1999. ISBN : 978-0-374-52715-0 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Biography and personal stories Race/Anti-Racism Abstract: Maurice Berger grew up hypersensitized to race in the charged environment of New York City in the sixties. His father was a Jewish liberal who worshipped Martin Luther King Jr., his mother a dark-skinned Sephardic Jew who hated black people. Berger himself was one of the few white kids in his Lower East Side housing project. Berger's unusual experience--and his determination to search the subject of race for its multiple and intricate meanings--makes White Lies a fresh and startling book. In it, Berger juxtaposes a series of brilliant short takes about the politics of race with personal and often disturbing vignettes about his own racial coming-of-age. These, in turn, are amplified by other voices and points of view: the words of ordinary people coping with fears and anxieties about race, and passages deftly drawn from the work of James Baldwin, Roland Barthes, Toni Morrison, and other writers.

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