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Title Statement | Black in white space: the enduring impact of color in everyday life / Elijah Anderson. |
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Alternative Title(s) | Black in white space: the enduring impact of colour in everyday life |
Author | Anderson, Elijah |
Publication | Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press,[2021]©2022 |
Extent of Item | x, 288 pages ; |
ISBN | 9780226657233 (hardcover) |
Other Number | pr07324810 |
Contents | Introduction --Prologue --The white space --The iconic ghetto --The deficit of credibility: "the dance" --The ghetto: a brief social history --A portrait of the ghetto --The local car wash: a racial advertisement --The street hustle: making ends meet --Policing the icon --The hidden injuries of race and class --The "token," the "Tom," and "the HNIC" --KAYR's story: a foot in two worlds --Gentrification: whites in Black space --The gym: a staging area --Conclusion: The perpetual stranger. |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary | "In Black in White Space, Elijah Anderson chronicles moments in which Black people are jarringly and often violently treated as outsiders-a birder in Central Park, a jogger in a rural Georgia town, or a college student lounging on an elite university quad. Anderson shows that due to expansions in racial equality over the past fifty years, Black Americans increasingly gain access to elite white spaces. But instances of discrimination and harassment serve to remind us that racial barriers are firmly entrenched-for the elite, the middle-class, and the poor alike. Anderson also delves into the stratifications and stereotypes that have made black and white spaces so persistently separate and difficult to break through, showing that regardless of the social or economic position of a Black person, the stereotype of the iconic ghetto looms in the white imagination, associating all Black people with crime, drugs, and poverty. From conversations on the street corners of Philadelphia with Black men who can't get work to Anderson's own morning jogs through a Cape Cod vacation town, he gathers a wealth of stories to shed new light on the urgent and dire persistence of racial discrimination in the United States"-- |
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By Topic | African Americans--Social conditions |
African Americans--Social conditions--United States | |
Racism against Black people--United States | |
Racism--United States | |
Social indicators--United States | |
Stereotypes (Social psychology)--United States |