Plight Of The Other Race Black And White America As Seen Through Biracial Eyes

Author : Tyson D. Brown
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 055744862X
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plight of the "Other" Race: Black and White America As Seen Through Biracial Eyes written by Tyson D. Brown and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-04-28 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "After having the question of What Are You? posed to him as a kid by a curious child, Tyson began a lifelong journey of biracial enlightenment in search of the ultimate answer to that question. After teetering on both sides of the threshold of lower and middle class life with his white mother and her family in a world where the Caucasian race was supreme and saw no equal, Tyson was sent on a turbulent quest of self discovery, to live with the previously unknown, black parents of his permanently incarcerated father and was abruptly thrust into the antithesis of his previous life. Whereas previously white reigned supreme, now black power was almighty. After adjusting to his new identity, he was ripped from comfort and thrown into the tumultuous environment of the foster care system where he experienced a racial roller coaster ride from ashy to classy, below the poverty line to the lap of luxury and back again to the median of the two. The Plight of the Other Race offers an eye opening perspective on Black, White and Multi Racial America as well as thought provoking insight into the experience of a biracial individual in current day America"--Back cover.

Author : Lise Funderburg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692262740
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black, White, Other written by Lise Funderburg and published by . This book was released on 2017-10 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lise Funderburg's groundbreaking oral history, BLACK, WHITE, OTHER, is the first book ever to ask biracial Americans about their experiences of race and identity. First published in 1994, it remains a seminal resource in discussions of race in America. Now available in a 20th-anniversary paperback edition, with a foreword from novelist Mat Johnson

Author : Martin A. Berger
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520268636
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeing Through Race written by Martin A. Berger and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Seeing Through Race is an indispensable and highly original account of how white Americans understood and remembered the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Berger shows us why photography was so central to civil rights, and his readings of iconic images are always penetrating and at times brilliant. His central argument, that whites wanted to be in charge of the movement, is complemented with rich insights on almost every page. It should be required reading for anyone interested in protest movements.” —John Stauffer, Chair of the History of American Civilization and Professor of English and African and African American Studies at Harvard University “The fervor of the 1960s civil rights movement may seem outdated by now, but terrible scenes enacted on the streets of Selma and Birmingham are preserved in the mass of surviving news photographs. Martin Berger argues that these pictures were never simple visual documents. By awakening the nation to the horrific violence of fire hoses and attack dogs, they defined what was meant by “civil rights movement.” Always engaging in its narrative as well as in its analytical and theoretical discourse, Seeing through Race is a stunning achievement both as history and as criticism.” —Alan Trachtenberg, Neil Gray, Jr. Professor Emeritus of English and American Studies at Yale University

Author : Elliott Lewis
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780786716685
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fade written by Elliott Lewis and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interweaves the personal memoirs of the author with the stories of dozens of other biracial Americans who would challenge contemporary beliefs about race, in an account that cites a growing number of biracial American citizens and addresses such topics as affirmative action, trans-racial adoption, and interracial sexual relations.

Author : Christopher Jencks
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815746119
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black-White Test Score Gap written by Christopher Jencks and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " The test score gap between blacks and whites—on vocabulary, reading, and math tests, as well as on tests that claim to measure scholastic aptitude and intelligence--is large enough to have far-reaching social and economic consequences. In their introduction to this book, Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips argue that eliminating the disparity would dramatically reduce economic and educational inequality between blacks and whites. Indeed, they think that closing the gap would do more to promote racial equality than any other strategy now under serious discussion. The book offers a comprehensive look at the factors that contribute to the test score gap and discusses options for substantially reducing it. Although significant attempts have been made over the past three decades to shrink the test score gap, including increased funding for predominantly black schools, desegregation of southern schools, and programs to alleviate poverty, the median black American still scores below 75 percent of American whites on most standardized tests. The book brings together recent evidence on some of the most controversial and puzzling aspects of the test score debate, including the role of test bias, heredity, and family background. It also looks at how and why the gap has changed over the past generation, reviews the educational, psychological, and cultural explanations for the gap, and analyzes its educational and economic consequences. The authors demonstrate that traditional explanations account for only a small part of the black-white test score gap. They argue that this is partly because traditional explanations have put too much emphasis on racial disparities in economic resources, both in homes and in schools, and on demographic factors like family structure. They say that successful theories will put more emphasis on psychological and cultural factors, such as the way black and white parents teach their children to deal with things they do not know or understand, and the way black and white children respond to the same classroom experiences. Finally, they call for large-scale experiments to determine the effects of schools' racial mix, class size, ability grouping, and other policies. In addition to the editors, the contributors include Claude Steele, Ronald Ferguson, William G. Bowen, Philip Cook, and William Julius Wilson. "

Author : Frank Shuffelton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195075234
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Mixed Race written by Frank Shuffelton and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the 18th century and colonial American values, this collection of essays explores the subject of ethnicity in the USA. Moving from questions of race and ethnicity to varieties of ethnic representation, it sheds light on the confrontations of ethnically different peoples.

Author : Nigel I. Malcolm
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496842669
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Racial Uplift written by Nigel I. Malcolm and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2022-12-28 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1903, W. E. B. Du Bois wrote about the Talented Tenth in an influential essay of the same name. The concept exalted college-educated Blacks who Du Bois believed could provide the race with the guidance it needed to surmount slavery, segregation, and oppression in America. Although Du Bois eventually reassessed this idea, the rhetoric of the Talented Tenth resonated, still holding sway over a hundred years later. In Rethinking Racial Uplift: Rhetorics of Black Unity and Disunity in the Obama Era, author Nigel I. Malcolm asserts that in the post–civil rights era, racial uplift has been redefined not as Black public intellectuals lifting the masses but as individuals securing advantage for themselves and their children. Malcolm examines six best-selling books published during Obama’s presidency—including Randall Kennedy’s Sellout, Bill Cosby’s and Alvin Poussaint’s Come On, People, and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me—and critically analyzes their rhetorics on Black unity, disunity, and the so-called “postracial” era. Based on these writings and the work of political and social scientists, Malcolm shows that a large, often-ignored, percentage of Blacks no longer see their fate as connected with that of other African Americans. While many Black intellectuals and activists seek to provide a justification for Black solidarity, not all agree. In Rethinking Racial Uplift, Malcolm takes contemporary Black public intellectual discourse seriously and shows that disunity among Blacks, a previously ignored topic, is worth exploring.

Author : Kimberly Chabot Davis
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252096312
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the White Negro written by Kimberly Chabot Davis and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critics often characterize white consumption of African American culture as a form of theft that echoes the fantasies of 1950s-era bohemians, or "White Negroes," who romanticized black culture as anarchic and sexually potent. In Beyond the White Negro, Kimberly Chabot Davis claims such a view fails to describe the varied politics of racial crossover in the past fifteen years. Davis analyzes how white engagement with African American novels, film narratives, and hip-hop can help form anti-racist attitudes that may catalyze social change and racial justice. Though acknowledging past failures to establish cross-racial empathy, she focuses on examples that show avenues for future progress and change. Her study of ethnographic data from book clubs and college classrooms shows how engagement with African American culture and pedagogical support can lead to the kinds of white self-examination that make empathy possible. The result is a groundbreaking text that challenges the trend of focusing on society's failures in achieving cross-racial empathy and instead explores possible avenues for change.

Author : Bernie Devlin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461206693
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intelligence, Genes, and Success written by Bernie Devlin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scientific response to the best-selling The Bell Curve which set off a hailstorm of controversy upon its publication in 1994. Much of the public reaction to the book was polemic and failed to analyse the details of the science and validity of the statistical arguments underlying the books conclusion. Here, at last, social scientists and statisticians reply to The Bell Curve and its conclusions about IQ, genetics and social outcomes.

Author : Joanne Kilgour Dowdy
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004368329
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Text Sets written by Joanne Kilgour Dowdy and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by educators from diverse experiences, Text Sets: Multimodal Learning for Multicultural Students provides ready-to-use multicultural text sets complete with annotations, instructional activities, and multimedia tools, as well as a framework for building and using new sets.