ISBN: 9780813521053

"Why do white people have vaginas?" asks Maureen Reddy's two-year-old son. "Why do boys have curly hair?" These are the questions Reddy grapples with on her journey, as a white mother of … Plus…

"Why do white people have vaginas?" asks Maureen Reddy's two-year-old son. "Why do boys have curly hair?" These are the questions Reddy grapples with on her journey, as a white mother of black children, toward an internalized understanding of race - particularly whiteness - and of racism. Moving from memoir to race theory, to literary analysis, to interviews with friends, Reddy places this personal journey in a broad cultural context. Reddy writes as a racial "insider" who stands outside accepted racial arrangements, a position that can afford unique insight into the many contradictions of those arrangements. She addresses attempts to cross the color line that divides blacks and whites; the meeting points of whiteness and blackness; the politics of feminism and anti-racism; loving blackness; mothering black children; racism in schools; and relationships among black and white women. Our culture is permeated by color. And whether we can sort out racial divisions will, Reddy feels, determine whether we survive as a society. Media > Book, [PU: Rutgers University Press]<

1994, ISBN: 081352105X

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[EAN: 9780813521053], [SC: 25.53], [PU: New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, (1994) dj], WOMEN AUTHOR, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, AFRICAN AMERICAN, INTERRACIAL CHILDREN, MODERN SOCIETY, HARDC… Plus…

[EAN: 9780813521053], [SC: 25.53], [PU: New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, (1994) dj], WOMEN AUTHOR, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, AFRICAN AMERICAN, INTERRACIAL CHILDREN, MODERN SOCIETY, HARDCOVER FIRST EDITION - RACE RELATIONS AND RACISM NOISBN, Jacket, Hardcover first edition - First printing. Essays on some aspects of her life as a white woman, married to a black man and raising interracial children. Although written more than 20 years ago, the beginning of the preface could have come from today's news, as Reddy realizes that her son, who is playing a game of hide-and-seek, is now old enough and tall enough to be mistaken for "the urban predator of television-fueled nightmares, ready to spring from the bushes." She realizes she has waited too long to warn him - that he has to keep his hands out of his pockets when in stores, how to talk to the police when they stop him on his bicycle, etc. A very personal and deeply felt book. Bibliography, index. xvi, 193 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.), Books<