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When race becomes real : Black and White writers confront their personal histories

This riveting collection of personal stories, all commissioned specifically for this book, reveals the racial hopes, fears, fury and triumphs of black and white writers of all stripes. These stories refuse to tiptoe around the issue, don't wax nostalgic, preach sermons, or act as expert witnesses; in this book they are willing, for the first time, to bare their souls and tell the truth
Print Book, English, ©2002
Lawrence Hill Books, Chicago, Ill., ©2002
Anecdotes
xvi, 335 pages : portraits ; 24 cm
9781556524486, 155652448X
49249664
Pt. 1: genesis
Race story / Jim Schutze
Crazy sometimes / Leonard Pitts, Jr
Experiences and memories / Robert Coles
The night I stopped being a Negro / Les Payne
Son of the South / John Seigenthaler
Talking white / Kimberly Springer
Central Park Samaritan / Natalie Angier
It all started with my parents / Lucy Gibson
Pt. 2: fear and longing
Race, rage, and the ace of spades / Julianne Malveaux
To make them stand in fear / David Bradley
Passing / Theresa M. Towner
Black and white / Robert Jensen
For colored girls who have resisted homogenization when the rainbow ain't enough / Jocelyn K. Moody
Anatomy of a fairy princess / Patricia J. Williams
A rambling response to the play Marie Christine / Kalamu ya Salaam
Black, white, and seeing red all over
Race fatigue / Ira J. Hadnot
Pt. 3: exodus
Choosing to be black: the ultimate white privilege?
White like me: race and identity through majority eyes / Tim Wise
Traveling with white people / Colleen J. McElroy
Race: a discussion in ten parts, plus a few moments of unsubstantiated theory and one inarguable fact / Kiini Ibura Salaam
A funky fresh talented tenth / Touré
On acting white: mother-daughter talk / Lisa Dodson and Odessa Dorian Cole
Country music / Susan Straight
One summer evening / Noel Ignatiev
Spelling lesson / Carlton Winfrey
Jasper, Texas elegy / Bernestine Singley
All souls: civil rights from Southie to Soweto and back / Michael Patrick MacDonald
Pictures in black and white / Hanna Griffiths