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000437882 1001_ $$aChristie, Ron,$$d1969-
000437882 24510 $$aActing white :$$bthe curious history of a racial slur /$$cRon Christie.
000437882 250__ $$a1st ed.
000437882 260__ $$aNew York :$$bThomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press,$$c2010.
000437882 300__ $$aviii, 290 p. ;$$c25 cm.
000437882 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000437882 5050_ $$aPrologue : a new day or deja vu? -- Uncle Tom's cabin : the genesis of acting white -- Booker T. Washington : a turn of the century Uncle Tom acting white? -- Plessy v. Ferguson : a long journey towards equality -- W.E.B. Dubois : the souls of Black folk and the roar of the Niagara movement -- The rise of Marcus Garvey versus the roar of the Niagara movement : who best to lead -- Blacks forward at the dawn of the Harlem Rennaissance? -- Brown vs. Board of Education : a milestone to equality -- World (Martin Luther King's the measure of a man) versus separate and unequal -- (Malcolm X's the end of white world supremacy) -- Black power, moral relativism and radical chic -- Affirmative action -- The divide : upwardly mobile Black America and the urban poor -- Justice Clarence Thomas : an Uncle Tom acting white by selling-out? -- The president who happens to be Black versus a Black president : the coming rise of colorless values, or not? -- The death of a racial slur : the new underground railroad : transporting Black people to real equality -- Appendix of primary documents: Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Exposition address -- Plessy v. Ferguson -- Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al -- Barack Obama's keynote address at the Democratic National Convention.
000437882 520__ $$aA history of the slanderous phrase "acting white" demonstrates the backlash against successful, well-mannered, or well-educated African Americans while tracing the history of the insult's usage from "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to Bill Cosby's controversial NAACP speech in 2004.
000437882 650_0 $$aAfrican Americans$$xAttitudes.
000437882 650_0 $$aWhites$$zUnited States$$xAttitudes.
000437882 650_0 $$aInvective$$zUnited States.
000437882 650_0 $$aCommunication$$xSocial aspects$$zUnited States.
000437882 650_0 $$aSocial interaction$$zUnited States.
000437882 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xRace relations$$xPsychological aspects.
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