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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