"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 -...

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1. Verfasser:	Reddy, Maureen T. (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New Brunswick, NJ Rutgers Univ. Press 1994
Schlagworte:	Family Parent and child > United States Parent-Child Relations > United States Prejudice > United States Race Relations > United States Racially mixed children > United States > Case studies Racism > United States Kind Interethnische Ehe Rassenfrage USA Erlebnisbericht Fallstudiensammlung
Zusammenfassung:	"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
Beschreibung:	XVI, 193 S.
ISBN:	081352105X