Black on White
Subtitle: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White
Edition: 1st Pbk. Ed edition
Publisher: Schocken
Published: January 9, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780805211146
Subjects: Ethnography; Racism & racial discrimination; Social Science; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Sociology; USA; American - African American; American - African American & Black; Minority Studies - Race Relations; Social Science / African-American Studies; Attitudes; Afro-Americans; Race awareness; United States; Whites
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.