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020 a| 1469632829q| (cloth ;q| alk. paper);

020 a| 9781469632834q| (pbk. ;q| alk. paper);

020 a| 1469632837q| (pbk. ;q| alk. paper);

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100 1 a| Gaines, Alisha,e| author.=| ^A1334597;

245 10 a| Black for a day :b| white fantasies of race and empathy /c| Alisha Gaines.;

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264 1 a| Chapel Hill :b| University of North Carolina Press,c| [2017];

300 a| pages cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| 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.;

520 a| "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"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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650 0 a| Empathyx| Political aspects.=| ^A5767;

650 0 a| African Americansx| Social conditionsy| 20th century.=| ^A4266;

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

Author/creator	Gaines, Alisha author.
Format	Book
Publication	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Description	pages cm
Subjects	Passing (Identity)--United States. --History. --20th century. Impersonation. Empathy--Political aspects. African Americans--Social conditions. --20th century. United States--Race relations. --History. --20th century.

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.
Abstract	"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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2016046558
ISBN	9781469632827 (cloth ; alk. paper)
ISBN	1469632829 (cloth ; alk. paper)
ISBN	9781469632834 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
ISBN	1469632837 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
ISBN	(ebook)

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