Acting White: The Ironic Legacy of Desegregation by Stuart Buck

Acting White: The Ironic Legacy of Desegregation

Stuart Buck

272 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction history race sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Commentators from Bill Cosby to Barack Obama have observed the phenomenon of black schoolchildren accusing studious classmates of “acting white.” How did this contentious phrase, with roots in Jim Crow-era racial discord, become a part of the scho...

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