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"In this deeply moving book, 30 of America's best-known writers on race step from behind the curtain of objectivity to turn the spotlight on themselves and bear witness to the racial divide. In this riveting collection of personal stories such luminaries as Robert Coles, Beverly Daniel Tatum, Natalie Angier, Patricia J. Williams, David Bradley, Lisa Dodson, Leonard Pitts, Jr., Jim Schutze, and Julianne Malveaux reveal the racial hopes, fears, fury, and triumphs of black and white writers of all stripes. These are writers who refuse to tiptoe around the issue, who don't wax nostalgic, preach sermons, or act as expert witnesses; in this book they are willing to bare their souls and tell the truth. Alternately invigorating, shocking, and inspiring, When Race Becomes Real reveals what it really means to be black—and to be white—in the 21st century."
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Bernestine Singley works as a mediator and consultant. She has been an assistant attorney general in both Massachusetts and Texas and has contributed to a number of anthologies, including Children of the Dream. She lives in Duncanville, Texas.
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In America, race is! And although it is a social construct with no real biological basis, it has real meaning to us as individuals. This book of essays and commentaries from black and white people of various ages, economic status, and sexual orientations focuses on the social imposition of race as a reality. The contributors recall how race as a reality was introduced into their lives, how it is forever present in their lives, and how it is negotiated, challenged, or ignored. The white man who grew up in the segregated South declines to apologize for racial attitudes but reflects a social reality that is grounded in the U.S. Other more liberal and radical whites face up to the privileges attendant on their racial status. Several black subjects seek not to be consumed by a racial identity that American society imposes on them. The essays, while rich in individual insights, collectively reflect the complexity of how American ideals of equality fall prey to the blindness of a colored history. Vernon Ford
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- PublisherLawrence Hill Books
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1556525184
- ISBN 13 9781556525186
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages338
- EditorBell Derrick
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