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Acting White: The Ironic Legacy of Desegregation
Acting White The Ironic Legacy of Desegregation
Author: Stuart Buck
Commentators from Bill Cosby to Barack Obama have observed the phenomenon of black schoolchildren accusing studious classmates of “acting white.? How did this contentious phrase, with roots in Jim Crow-era racial discord, become a part of the schoolyard lexicon, and what does it say about the state of racial identity in the American system ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780300123913
ISBN-10: 0300123914
Publication Date: 5/25/2010
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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