Beyond the whiteness of whiteness : memoir of a white mother of black sons / Jane Lazarre.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lazarre, Jane, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mothers and sons--United States.

Mothers and sons.

Multiracial children.

United States.

Multiracial children--United States.

Physical Description:

xxxvi, 140 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Twentieth anniversary edition.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.

Summary:

"I am Black," Jane Lazarre's son tells her. "I have a Jewish mother, but I am not 'biracial.' That term is meaningless to me." In this moving memoir, Jane Lazarre, the white Jewish mother of now adult Black sons, offers a powerful meditation on motherhood and racism in America as she tells the story of how she came to understand the experiences other African American husband, their growing sons, and their extended family. Recounting her education, as a wife, mother, and scholar-teacher, into the realities of African American life, Lazarre shows how although racism and white privilege lie at the heart of American history and culture, any of us can comprehend the experience of another through empathy and learning. This Twentieth Anniversary Edition features a new preface, in which Lazarre's elegy for Mother Emanuel AME in Charleston, South Carolina; Michael Brown; Eric Garner; and so many others, reminds us of the continued resonance of race in American life. As #BlackLivesMatter gains momentum, Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness is more urgent and essential than ever. Book jacket.

Contents:

The Richmond Museum of the Confederacy

Color blind: the whiteness of whiteness

Passing over

Reunions, retellings, refrains

A color with no precise name.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-140).

"Twentieth anniversary anniversary edition with a new preface."

ISBN:

9780822361473

0822361477

9780822361664

0822361663

OCLC:

917359193