Codes of conduct : race, ethics, and the color of our character / Karla F.C. Holloway.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holloway, Karla F. C., 1949-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Race identity.

African Americans.

Ethnicity--United States.

Ethnicity.

United States.

United States--Race relations.

Race relations.

Race relations in literature.

Ethnicity in literature.

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--African American authors.

Black English in literature.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xii, 225 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 1995.

Summary:

In Codes of Conduct, Karla Holloway meditates on the dynamics of race and ethnicity as they are negotiated in the realms of power. Her uniquely insightful and intelligent analysis guides us in a fresh way through Anita Hill's interrogation, the assault on Tawana Brawley, the mass murders of Atlanta's children, the schisms between the personal and public domains of her life as a black professor, and - in a moving epilogue - the story of her son's difficulties growing up as a young black male in contemporary society. Its three main sections, "The Body Politic", "Language, Thought, and Culture", and "The Moral Lives of Children", relate these issues to the visual power of the black and female body, the aesthetic resonance and racialized drama of language, and our children's precarious habits of surviving. Throughout, Holloway questions the consequences in African American community life of citizenship that is meted out sparingly when one's ethnicity is colored. This is a book of a culture's stories - from literature, public life, contemporary and historical events, aesthetic expression, and popular culture - all located within the common ground of African American ethnicity. Holloway writes with a passion, urgency, and wit that carry the reader swiftly through each chapter. The book should take its place among those other important contemporary works that speak to the future relationships between whites and blacks in this country.

Contents:

Introduction. A Common Sense, a Mother Wit: Reflections on Ethics and Ethnicity

Chapter One. The Body Politics

Chapter Two. Language, Thought, and Culture

Chapter Three. The Moral Lives of Children

Epillogue. A Storied Life.

Notes:

"Jacket design by Ann Youmans."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-213) and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0813521556 :

OCLC:

31012990