Beyond the White Negro: Empathy and Anti-Racist Reading

by Kimberly Chabot Davis

Book Overview

Critics often characterize white consumption of African American culture as a form of theft that echoes the fantasies of 1950s-era bohemians, or "White Negroes," who romanticized black culture as anarchic and sexually potent. In Beyond the White Negro, Kimberly Chabot Davis claims such a view fails to describe the varied politics of racial crossover in the past fifteen years.

Davis analyzes how white engagement with African American...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252079949
• ISBN13: 9780252079948
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"