Real Black Adventures in Racial Sincerity

Name: Real Black Adventures in Racial Sincerity
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ISBN: 9780226390024

ISBN-10: 0226390020

ISBN-13: 9780226390024

Edition: 2005

Authors: John L. Jackson Jr.

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New York's urban neighborhoods are full of young would-be emcees who aspire to "keep it real" and restaurants like Sylvia's famous soul food eatery that offer a taste of "authentic" black culture. In these and other venues, authenticity is considered the best way to distinguish the real from the phony, the genuine from the fake. But in Real Black, John L. Jackson Jr. proposes a new model for thinking about these issues--racial sincerity. Jackson argues that authenticity caricatures identity as something imposed on people, imprisoning them within stereotypes: an African American high school student who excels in the classroom, for instance, might be dismissed as "acting white." On the…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/15/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English




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