Acting white
Subtitle: the curious history of a racial slur
By: Ron Christie
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780312599461
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : a new day or deja vu?; title: Uncle Tom's cabin : the genesis of acting white; title: Booker T. Washington : a turn of the century Uncle Tom acting white?; title: Plessy v. Ferguson : a long journey towards equality; title: W.E.B. Dubois : the souls of Black folk and the roar of the Niagara movement; title: The rise of Marcus Garvey versus the roar of the Niagara movement : who best to lead; title: Blacks forward at the dawn of the Harlem Rennaissance?; title: Brown vs. Board of Education : a milestone to equality; title: World (Martin Luther King's the measure of a man) versus separate and unequal; title: (Malcolm X's the end of white world supremacy); title: Black power, moral relativism and radical chic; title: Affirmative action; title: The divide : upwardly mobile Black America and the urban poor; title: Justice Clarence Thomas : an Uncle Tom acting white by selling-out?; title: The president who happens to be Black versus a Black president : the coming rise of colorless values, or not?; title: The death of a racial slur : the new underground railroad : transporting Black people to real equality; title: Appendix of primary documents: Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Exposition address; title: Plessy v. Ferguson; title: Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al; title: Barack Obama's keynote address at the Democratic National Convention.