Status
Available
Call number
Collection
Publication
New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2010.
Description
A history of the slanderous phrase "acting white" demonstrates the backlash against successful, well-mannered, or well-educated African Americans while tracing the history of the insult's usage from "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to Bill Cosby's controversial NAACP speech in 2004.
Call number
Race Relations / Christie
Language
ISBN
9780312599461
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