Black for a day : white fantasies of race and empathy / Alisha Gaines.

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"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)
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Passing (Identity) > United States > History > 20th century.
Impersonation.
Empathy > Political aspects.
African Americans > Social conditions > 20th century.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Physical Description:xiii, 213 pages : illustrations
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Good niggerhood : Ray Sprigle's Dixie terror
  • The missing day : John Howard Griffin and the specter of Joseph Franklin
  • A secondhand kind of terror : Grace Halsell and the ironies of empathy
  • Empathy TV : family and racial intimacy on Black. White.