Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White

By David R. Roediger

Book Overview

From Frederick Douglass and WEB Du Bois to Claude McKay and Alice Walker, more than fifty of the most important black writers throughout history explore the question: What does it really mean to be white?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805211144
• ISBN13: 9780805211146
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Schocken Books Inc
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

I'm white and I learned a lot.

I saw this book in the public library and had to check it out. As a white woman who is concerned about civil rights issues, I felt I had to read it. Well, it was certainly eye-opening and uncomfortable in some places. These African-American authors and cartoonists, featured in these essays, excerpts, and visual art representations, did not pull back from their feelings and observations. They said what they meant, and meant what they said! Their viewpoints were vastly different from mine, and I had to stop and really THINK about it, sometimes in mid-paragraph. That they were telling the truth, from their perspective, cannot be denied.