Do You Know That You Have Black Friends? : A Reeducation on Race for White Americans by Black Americans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, Timothy Elijah.

Series:

SUNY Series in African American Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Racism--United States.

Racism.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (106 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2026.

Summary:

Conveys the experiential realities of those racialized as Black and, in turn, demonstrates that biological distinctions are only surface-level cues by which a racialized system assigned real lived experiences."I have Black friends" is a common defense invoked by White Americans when accused of anti-Black racism or simple racial ignorance.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Illustrations

Forethought

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: "I Have Black Friends": An Illegitimate Defense of White Racism

Chapter 2: "Do You Know What Makes Us Black?"

Chapter 3: "Do You Know That's Not Anger, It's Trauma?"

Chapter 4: "Do You Know that the Institutions that Serve You Destroy Us?"

Chapter 5: "Do You Know Black Youth Are Robbed of Healthy Childhoods?"

Chapter 6: "Do You Know that Black 'Hard Work' Is Not the Answer?"

Chapter 7: "Do You Know It's Not Black People's Responsibility to Fix This?"

References

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9798855809343

OCLC:

1610427002