Gaines, Alisha, <br/><br/>
Black for a day :  white fantasies of race and empathy / 
Alisha Gaines. 
 - Chapel Hill :  University of North Carolina Press,  (c)2017. 
 - 1 online resource. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Good niggerhood : Ray Sprigle's Dixie terror --  The missing day : John Howard Griffin and the specter of Joseph Franklin --  A secondhand kind of terror : Grace Halsell and the ironies of empathy --  Empathy TV : family and racial intimacy on Black. White. 
<br/><br/> "In 1948, journalist Ray Sprigle traded his whiteness to live as a black man for four weeks. A little over a decade later, John Howard Griffin famously 'became' black as well, traveling the American South in search of a certain kind of racial understanding. Contemporary history is littered with the surprisingly complex stories of white people passing as black, and here Alisha Gaines constructs a unique genealogy of 'empathetic racial impersonation' - white liberals walking in the fantasy of black skin under the alibi of cross-racial empathy. At the end of their experiments in 'blackness, ' Gaines argues that these debatably well-meaning white impersonators arrived at little more than false consciousness"-- 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781469632841 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Passing (Identity)--History--United States--20th century.<br/>Impersonation.<br/>Empathy--Political aspects.<br/>African Americans--Social conditions--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E185  / .B533 2017