Title: White lies
First published: 1999
Description: Berger juxtaposes a series of brilliant short takes about the politics of race with personal and often disturbing vignettes about his own racial coming-of-age. These, in turn, are amplified by other voices and points of view: the words of ordinary people coping with fears and anxieties about race, and passages deftly drawn from the work of James Baldwin, Roland Barthes, Toni Morrison, and other writers.

Berger has become a passionate observer of race matters, searching out the subtle and not-so-subtle manifestations of racial meaning in everyday life. In White Lies, he encourages us to reckon with our own complex and often troubling opinions about race.
Subjects: Race relations, Jews, Biography, Racism, Race awareness, Race discrimination, Jews, united states, biography, United states, race relations, Caucasian race
Places: United States
People: Maurice Berger (1956-), Maurice Berger
LC classification: E185.615 .B47 1999