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1 online resource (xxi, 140 pages) |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- ONE. The Richmond Museum of the Confederacy -- TWO. Color Blind: The Whiteness of Whiteness -- THREE. Passing Over -- FOUR. Reunions, Retellings, Refrains -- FIVE. A Color with No Precise Name -- Notes |
| Summary |
"I am Black," Jane Lazarre's son tells her. "I have a Jewish mother, but I am not 'biracial.' That term is meaningless to me." She understands, she says - but he tells her, gently, that he doesn't think so, that she can't understand this completely because she is white. Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness is Jane Lazarre's memoir of coming to terms with this painful truth, of learning to look into the nature of whiteness in a way that passionately informs the connections |
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Between herself and her family. A moving account of life in a biracial family, this book is a powerful meditation on motherhood and racism in America, the story of an education into the realities of African American culture. Lazarre has spent over twenty-five years living in a Black American family, married to an African American man, birthing and raising two sons. A teacher of African American literature, she has been influenced by an autobiographical tradition that is |
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Characterized by a speaking out against racism and a grounding of that expression in one's own experience - an overlapping of the stories of one's own life and the world. Like the stories of that tradition, Lazarre's is a recovery of memories that come together in this book with a new sense of meaning. From a crucial moment in which consciousness is transformed, to recalling and accepting the nature and realities of whiteness, each step describes an aspect of her |
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Internal and intellectual journey. Recalling events that opened her eyes to her sons' and husband's experience as Black Americans - an operation, turned into a horrific nightmare by a doctor's unconscious racism; the jarring truths brought home by a visit to an exhibit on slavery at the Richmond Museum of the Confederacy - or her own revealing missteps, Lazarre describes a movement from silence to voice, to a commitment to action, and to an appreciation of the value of a |
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Fluid, even ambiguous identity. It is a coming of age that permits a final retelling of family history and family reunion |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-140) |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Mochsin, Mochammed Sohn gnd |
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University of South Alabama gnd |
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Mothers and sons -- United States
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Racially mixed children -- United States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Women.
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Mothers and sons
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Racially mixed children
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Rassismus
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Erlebnisbericht
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Mutter
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Schwarze
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Weibliche Weiße
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Mères et fils -- États-Unis.
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Enfants métis -- États-Unis.
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United States
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USA
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822378167 |
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0822378167 |
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9780822374145 |
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0822374145 |
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