White scholars/African American texts
By: edited by Lisa A. Long.
Contributors: Long, Lisa A.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: African Americans -- Study and teaching (Higher); African Americans -- Historiography.; American literature -- African American authors -- Study and teaching.; African Americans -- Intellectual life.; Whites -- United States -- Intellectual life.; Teachers, White -- United States.; Education, Higher -- Social aspects -- United States.; Education, Higher -- Political aspects -- United States.; United States -- Race relations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-234) and index.
Table of contents: title: "White scholars/African American texts" / Lisa A. Long; title: "Naming the problem that led to the question 'Who shall teach African American literature?' ; or, Are we ready to disband the Wheatley court?" / Nellie Y. McKay; title: Liberalism, authority, and authenticity : "theme for African American literature B" / Russ Castronovo; title: "Race walks in the room : white teachers in Black studies" / John Ernest; title: "Naming the problem embedded in the problem that led to the question 'Who shall teach African American literature?' ; or, Are we ready to discard the concept of authenticity altogether?" / Leslie W. Lewis; title: "Turning impossibilities into possibilities : a white scholar of Black literature at Tuskegee" / Barbara A. Baker; title: Training and working in the field : "Before positionality" / William L. Andrews; title: "White scholars in African American literary circles : appropriation or cultural literacy?" / Venetria K. Patton; title: "Knowing your 'stuff,' knowing yourself" / April Conley Kilinski and Amanda M. Lawrence; title: "At close range : being Black and mentoring whites in African American studies" / Barbara McCaskill; title: Beyond Black and white : "Faulty analogies-queer white critics reading African American texts" / Sabine Meyer; title: "The colour of the critic : an intervention in the critical debate in African American theory on interpretive authority" / Nita N. Kumar; title: "Between Rome, Harlem, and Harlan" / Alessandro Portelli; title: "The stepsister and the clan : when the native teaches African American literature" / Ngwarsungu Chiwengo; title: "Twelve years with Martin Delany : a confession" / Robert S. Levine; title: "Master thoughts" / Dale M. Bauer; title: "Writing about Gwendolyn Brooks anyway" / James D. Sullivan; title: "Truth and talent in interpreting ethnic American autobiography : from white to Black and beyond" / Kimberly Rae Connor.