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

Publication Info.	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
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Description	1 online resource (xiii, 213 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- Epilogue : the last soul sister.
Summary	"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 surprisingly complex stories of white people passing as black, and here Alisha Gaines constructs a unique genealogy of 'empathetic racial impersonation' - white liberals walking in the fantasy of black skin under the alibi of cross-racial empathy. At the end of their experiments in 'blackness, ' Gaines argues that these debatably well-meaning white impersonators arrived at little more than false consciousness"-- Provided by publisher.
Note	Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 30, 2017).
Subject	United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
	Passing (Identity) -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Impersonation.
	Empathy -- Political aspects.
	African Americans -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
	African Americans -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00799698
	Impersonation. (OCoLC)fst00968149
	Passing (Identity) (OCoLC)fst01054417
	Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN	9781469632841 (electronic book)
	1469632845 (electronic book)
	9781469632858 (electronic book)
	1469632853 (electronic book)

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