Acting white? : rethinking race in "post-racial" America /
Devon W. Carbado and Mitu Gulati.
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
| Medvirkende | Gulati, Mitu, (author.)
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (391 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue Acting Out the Racial Double Bind (or Being Black Like Obama); 1 Why Act White?; 2 Talking White; 3 Acting Like a Black Woman; 4 Acting Like a (White) Woman; 5 (Not) Acting Criminal; 6 Acting Diverse; 7 Acting Within the Law; 8 Acting White to Help Other Blacks; Epilogue Acting Beyond Black and White; Notes; Index. - What does it mean to ""act black"" or ""act white""? Is race merely a matter of phenotype, or does it come from the inflection of a person's speech, the clothes in her closet, how she chooses to spend her time and with whom she chooses to spend it? What does it mean to be ""really"" black, and who gets to make that judgment? In Acting White?, leading scholars of race and the law Devon Carbado and Mitu Gulati 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
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| ISBN | 0-19-970006-0. - 0-19-993920-9
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