Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs - Brossura

Ikard, David; Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean

Brossura

ISBN 10: 022649263X ISBN 13: 9780226492636

Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 2017

Riassunto

In this incredibly timely book, David Ikard dismantles popular white supremacist tropes, which effectively devalue black life and trivialize black oppression. Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs investigates the tenacity and cultural capital of white redemption narratives in literature and popular media from Uncle Tom’s Cabin to The Help.

In the book, Ikard explodes the fiction of a postracial society while awakening us to the sobering reality that we must continue to fight for racial equality or risk losing the hard-fought gains of the Civil Rights movement. Through his close reading of novels, films, journalism, and political campaigns, he analyzes willful white blindness and attendant master narratives of white redemption—arguing powerfully that he who controls the master narrative controls the perception of reality. The book sounds the alarm about seemingly innocuous tropes of white redemption that abound in our society and generate the notion that blacks are perpetually indebted to whites for liberating, civilizing, and enlightening them. In Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs, Ikard expertly and unflinchingly gives us a necessary critical historical intervention.

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Informazioni sull'autore

David Ikard is professor and director of African American and diaspora studies at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Breaking the Silence: Toward a Black Male Feminist Criticism and Blinded by the Whites: Why Race Still Matters in the 21st Century, as well as coauthor of Nation of Cowards: Black Activism in Barack Obama&;s Post-Racial America.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: University of Chicago Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 022649263X
• ISBN 13: 9780226492636
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 158
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile