Acting white? : rethinking race in "post-racial" America

Carbado, Devon W. (Author). Gulati, Mitu. (Added Author).

Summary: The authors argue that, in spite of decades of racial progress and the pervasiveness of multicultural rhetoric, racial judgments are often based not just on skin color, but on how a person conforms to behavior stereotypically associated with a certain race. Specifically, racial minorities are judged on how they "perform" their race: the clothes they wear, the way they style their hair, the institutions with which they affiliate, their racial politics, the people they befriend, date or marry, where they live, how they speak, and their outward mannerisms and demeanor.

Record details

ISBN: 9780195382587
ISBN: 0195382587
Physical Description: print
x, 198 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Publisher: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, [2013]
Copyright: ©2013

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Prologue : Acting out the racial double bind -- Why act white? -- Talking white -- Acting like a black woman -- Acting like a (white) woman -- (Not) acting criminal -- Acting diverse -- Acting within the law -- Acting white to help other blacks -- Epilogue : Acting beyond black and white.