Names we call home : autobiography on racial identity

Names we call home : autobiography on racial identity / edited by Becky Thompson and Sangeeta Tyagi.

Names We Call Home is a ground-breaking collection of essays which articulate the dynamics of racial identity in contemporary society. The first volume of its kind, Names We Call Home offers autobiographical essays, poetry, and interviews to highlight the historical, social, and cultural influences...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Thompson, Becky W. (Editor), Tyagi, Sangeeta (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 1996.
Subjects:
Ethnicity > United States.
Group identity > United States.
Ethnic groups.
Group identity.
ethnic groups.
group identity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Ethnic groups
Ethnicity
Group identity
Race relations
Gruppenidentität
Aufsatzsammlung
Ethnische Beziehungen
Ethnizität
United States > Race relations.
United States
USA
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction, storytelling as social conscience: the power of autobiography / Becky Thompson and Sangeeta Tyagi
  • Word problems / Kate Rushin
  • Part I. Blood ties, communal relations.
  • "When we are capable of stopping, we begin to see:" being white, seeing whiteness / Ruth Frankenberg
  • Mrs. Brent / Gayle Pemberton
  • Red and black in white America: discovering cross-border identities and other subversive activities / David Wellman
  • Writing in search of a home: geography, culture, and language in the creation of racial identity / Sangeeta Tyagi
  • Alice's little sister: the self concealed behind the self / Gloria Johnson-Powell
  • Place and kinship: a Native American's identity before and after words / Donald Andrew Grinde, Jr.
  • g Part II. Piecing together history
  • Locating Biafra: the words we wouldn't say / Faith Adiele
  • Afro images: politics, fashion, and nostalgia / Angela Y. Davis
  • Time traveling and border crossing: reflections on white identity / Becky Thompson
  • A hyphenated identity / Harry Kitano
  • Jews in the U.S.: the rising costs of whiteness / Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
  • Chattanooga black boy: identity and racism
  • Calvin Hernton
  • Part III. Love letters and conversations
  • My dear niece / Pam Mitchell
  • Oxydol poisoning / Earl Jackson, Jr.
  • Writing life / Beth Brant
  • Birth of a negation: a love letter
  • Andrew Spieldenner
  • Tippin' the furniture: an interview with Angela Maria Giudice / Elly Bulkin
  • Part IV. "Acts of creation: Sweat, blood, bone"
  • The breakdown of the bicultural mind / Cherríe Moraga
  • Eating salt / Lisa Kahaleole Change Hall
  • Turning the myths of black masculinity inside/out / Herb Green
  • " Wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born" / Ramon S. Torrecilha
  • Playing the devil's advocate: defending a multiracial identity in fractured community / Sarah Willie
  • Black women and the wilderness / Evelyn C. White
  • Toward the light / Vickie Sears
  • Waiting for a taxi / June Jordan
  • Contributors.

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