Face-to-face : blacks in America : white perceptions and black realities / Rose L.H. Finkenstaedt.

Author/creator Finkenstaedt, Rose L. H.
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : William Morrow and Co., ©1994.
Description432 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects
Racism--United States.
Racism against Black people--United States.
African Americans--Race identity.
African Americans--Segregation.
United States--Race relations.

Contents pt. I. Segregation and poverty in industrial and postindustrial America : Cultural and economic segregation ; Political and social segregation ; Black poverty: the effect of segregation -- pt. II. Black defense strategies : Self-help and community ; Agitation for civic equality ; Black communality and Black urban militance ; The Black movement of the sixties -- pt. III. White cultural stereotypes : White monoculturism ; The stereotype of the Black beast ; The stereotype of the contented slave ; The stereotype of the mulatto -- pt. IV. Black cultural affirmation : The Black dialectic with respect to the stereotype of the Black beast ; Black attitudes toward integration ; Black racial memory ; Black cultural commitment ; Black aesthetic forms ; Black postmodern forms.
Abstract Why have blacks been, in effect, responsible for much of the material success of America? Why did whites consider dispossession of blacks as essential to the rise of industrial wealth? Why has the continued relegation of blacks to outcast status united the rest of the nation? Why did the black agitation of the sixties yield to the despair of the seventies and the indifference of the eighties and nineties? Face-to-Face pursues the answers to these and many other important questions as it examines the white and black trends in American history and contemporary culture. It traces the devastating economic, political and social effects of segregation, all too evident in our city ghettos. It lays bare the myths behind the black stereotypes, such as the Black Beast, the Contented Slave and the Mulatto. Most of these stereotypes have sexual implications. Even white writers and intellectuals as acclaimed as William Faulkner, John Crowe Ransom, Norman Mailer and William Styron repeat and perpetuate them. Through her personal association with Malcolm X and other black rebels of the sixties, and her work for the old Freedom Now Party and The Liberator magazine, the author is able to give unusual insight into the blacks' uphill struggle to achieve their own cultural autonomy and overcome the bias of white supremacy.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 396-413) and index.
LCCN 93039675
ISBN068812383X (acid-free paper) :

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Joyner General Stacks E185.615 .F52 1994 ✔ Available Place Hold