Black on white
Subtitle: Black writers on what it means to be white
By: edited and with an introduction by David R. Roediger.
Contributors: Roediger, David R.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Schocken Books; Distributed by Pantheon Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
Subjects: Whites -- United States; Race awareness -- United States; African Americans -- Attitudes; American literature -- African American authors; Whites in literature; Race relations in literature; United States -- Race relations
Description: In this volume, David R. Roediger has brought together some of the most important black writers throughout history to explore the question: What does it really mean to be white in America?

From folktales and slave narratives to contemporary essays, poetry, and fiction, black writers have long been among America's keenest students of white consciousness and white behavior, but until now much of this writing has been ignored. Black on White reverses this trend by presenting the work of more than fifty major figures, including James Baldwin, Derrick Bell, Ralph Ellison, W. E. B.

Du Bois, bell hooks, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker to take a closer look at the many meanings of whiteness in our society.