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Bearing Witness?
Within the racial anxieties fixed in the black-white paradigm, cross-racial representations of the Other—to wit, a white author assuming an African American persona or an African American author assuming a whit....
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“When Folks Is Real Friends, There Ain’t No Such Thing as Place”
During the early 1960s, my great grandmother, Josephine, was employed as a domestic worker by Miss Horowitz, a wealthy Jewish woman in Kansas City, Missouri. At age 13, my mother, the eldest girl of seven child....
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Second (and Third, and Fourth …) Hel**s
Until more recently than I’d like to admit, I constructed my identity in direct opposition to the image of the mammy. As a big black girl who loved to smile, I insisted on playing the father, the neighbor, the ....
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Afterword Manufactured Maids, Mammies, and Falsified History
The issue of the white assumption of the right and requisite experience and expertise to speak African Americans’ cultural truth as persons and a people in life, literature, the media, the academy, and various ....
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Blee** Mark Twain?
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is perhaps the most famous, most beloved, and most controversial novel featuring a prominent black character and written by a white author. Extremely popular in its own day and in ...
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Are the Kids All Right?
On May 9, 2012, one day after North Carolina voters dealt a blow to the nation’s same-sex marriage movement by passing its controversial Amendment One ban on domestic partnerships, President Barack Obama announ....
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Mae Mallory and “The Southern Belle Fantasy Trope” at the Cuyahoga County Jail, 21st and Payne/“Pain”
In Monroe, North Carolina, in 1958, after the attempted rape and brutal beatings of two African American women by white men and the loss of the court cases that sought justice for these crimes, African American....
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White Lies and Black Consequences
Numerous autobiographies have been released over the past two decades documenting contemporary African American and Mexican American urban life, including themes of violent gangbanging, drug hustling, and the i....
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Blackness as Medium
White-authored texts asserting authoritative examination of black life and experience have prevailed in US discourse since before the nation’s founding. As the editors of this volume have argued in the introduc....
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“Savior,” Good Mother, Jezebel, Tom, Trickster
Singer Madonna and actress Angelina Jolie, two of Hollywood’s “bad girls” known in the past for their shockingly kinky sexual exploits, are now, ironically, hailed as America’s “good mothers,” modern-day Mother....
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Django Unchained
Django Unchained, the latest film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, tells the story of a rescued enslaved person named Django (Jaime Foxx) who teams up with his rescuer, a German-immigrant bounty hunter ...
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Introduction
Stories shape our identities on both individual and national levels, so it follows that our understandings of US history, the articulation of American values, and how citizens structure social relations are all....
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“Must the Novelist Ask Permission?”
Kathryn Stockett ends her 2009 New York Times bestseller The Help with fear. In the opening quote, the first-time author expresses the apprehension she experienced in employing the voices of two middle-aged blac...
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“A Secondhand Kind of Terror”
When Grace Halsell cited Lorraine Hansberry’s affirmation of a talented generation of black youth, she had only recently “become” a black woman. Armed with the curiosity and mobility of a freelance journalist, ....
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“Taking Care a White Babies, That’s What I Do”
In 2005, the coffee shop was my home. I personified the diligent doctoral student, armed with stacks of books and my laptop, venturing to the local Starbucks almost daily in an attempt to write my dissertation.....
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Blindsided by Racism
Many people have been captivated by the story of National Football League (NFL) player Michael Oher. Oher was born and raised in severe poverty in Memphis, Tennessee, to an absent and then later deceased father....
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Black Girlhood and The Help
“If you white you alright / If you black step back”: the lyrics of this 1967 folk song capture the storyline of black and white girlhood in Kathryn Stockett’s The Help. The Help is primarily a story of two women:...
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Picturing Poe: Contemporary Cultural Implications of Nevermore
Nestled in the final pages of Nevermore: A Graphic Adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s Short Stories (2008) is a brief comic-formatted biography entitled “The Facts of the Case of Edgar Allan Poe.” It begins with a q...
