Acting white? [electronic resource] : rethinking race in "post-racial" America / Devon W. Carbado and Mitu Gulati.
2013
KF384 .C37 2013eb
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Acting white? [electronic resource] : rethinking race in "post-racial" America / Devon W. Carbado and Mitu Gulati.
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9780199700066 (electronic book)
9780195382587
0195382587
9780195382587
0195382587
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.
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English
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1 online resource (x, 198 p.) : ill.
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KF384 .C37 2013eb
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340.089/96073
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The authors argue that, in spite of decades of racial progress and the pervasiveness of multicultural rhetoric, racial judgments are often based not just on skin color, but on how a person conforms to behavior stereotypically associated with a certain race. Specifically, racial minorities are judged on how they "perform" their race: the clothes they wear, the way they style their hair, the institutions with which they affiliate, their racial politics, the people they befriend, date or marry, where they live, how they speak, and their outward mannerisms and demeanor.
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Table of Contents
Prologue : acting out the racial double bind
Why act white?
Talking white
Acting like a black woman?
Acting like a (white) woman?
(Not) acting criminal
Acting diverse
Acting within the law
Acting white to help other blacks
Epilogue : acting beyond black and white.
Why act white?
Talking white
Acting like a black woman?
Acting like a (white) woman?
(Not) acting criminal
Acting diverse
Acting within the law
Acting white to help other blacks
Epilogue : acting beyond black and white.