Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs /David Ikard, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting.

Ikard, David, 1972-

Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs /David Ikard, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource.

Acknowledgments Foreword by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting Introduction Chapter 1 Good Slave Masters Don't Exist: Lovable Racists and the Crisis of Authorship in Twelve Years a Slave Chapter 2 Constituting the Crime: White Innocence as an Apparatus of Oppression Chapter 3 'We Have More to Fear than Racism that Announces Itself': Distraction as a Strategy to Oppress Chapter 4 'Only Tired I Was, Was Tired of Giving In': Rosa Parks, Magical Negroes, and the Whitewashing of Black Struggle Chapter 5 Santa Claus Is White and Jesus Is Too: Era(c)ing White Myths for the Health and Well-Being of Our Children Coda Notes Index.

Includes bibliographies and index.



9780226492773


Racism--United States.
African Americans--Social conditions.
Slavery--United States.


Electronic Books.

E185 / .L683 2017