Beyond the white negro : empathy and anti-racist reading / Kimberly Chabot Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Kimberly Chabot, 1968- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

White people--United States--Attitudes.

White people.

Anti-racism--United States.

Anti-racism.

African American arts--Influence.

African American arts.

Empathy.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Critics often characterize white consumption of African American culture as a form of theft that echoes the fantasies of 1950s-era bohemians, or 'White Negroes,' who romanticized black culture as anarchic and sexually potent. In this work, Kimberly Chabot Davis claims such a view fails to describe the varied politics of racial crossover in the past fifteen years. Davis analyzes how white engagement with African American novels, film narratives, and hip-hop can help form anti-racist attitudes that may catalyze social change and racial justice.

Contents:

Introduction: cross-racial empathy: viewing the White self through Black eyes

Wiggers or White allies? White hip-hop culture and racial sincerity

Oprah, book clubs, and the promise and limitations of empathy

Reading race and place: Boston book clubs and post-soul fiction

Deconstructing White ways of seeing: interracial-conflict films and college-student viewers

Conclusion: Black cultural encounters as a catalyst for divestment in White privilege.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780252079948

0252079949

9780252096310

0252096312

OCLC:

882104873