Black for a day : white fantasies of race and empathy / Alisha Gaines.
"In 1948, journalist Ray Sprigle traded his whiteness to live as a black man for four weeks. A little over a decade later, John Howard Griffin famously 'became' black as well, traveling the American South in search of a certain kind of racial understanding. Contemporary history is littered with the...
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Main Author: | Gaines, Alisha (Author) |
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Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2017]
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Physical Description: | xiii, 213 pages : illustrations |
Format: | Book |