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