An edition of Acting white
(2010)
Acting white
the curious history of a racial slur
1st ed.
by Ron Christie
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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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Acting white: the curious history of a racial slur
2010, Thomas Dunne Books
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in English
- 1st ed.
0312599463 9780312599461
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Table of 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 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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