Black on White
Subtitle: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Schocken
Published: March 24, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9780805241464
Subjects: Race relations; United States; Race And Ethnic Relations; African American Literature; Whites; Social Science; Sociology; Race awareness; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Minority Studies - Race Relations; United States - General; Non-Classifiable; Attitudes; Discrimination & Racism; African Americans
First sentence: When, for example, the obsession of his race consciousness leaves him, my white friend, Roger Van Dieman (who, I hasten to add, is an abstraction and integration and never existed), is quite companionable; otherwise he is impossible.