Beyond the White Negro: Empathy and Anti-Racist Reading

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Index Abel, Elizabeth, 116 Abu-Jamal, Mumia, 38 affirmative action: Bakke Supreme Court decision , 67; conservative backlash against, 122, 131, 141, 182–83; in Crash, 150, 182–83, 187; support for, 131, 160, 204 Ahlquist, Roberta, 181–82, 188–89 AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome ), 38, 39, 45, 46, 106 Aiello, Danny, 168 Alexie, Sherman, 106, 147, 191 Allen, Harry, 41, 42, 52, 221n80 Angelou, Maya, 79, 191 Angry Black White Boy (Mansbach), 28, 52–53, 55–65, 73, 75, 208 anti-essentialism, 17, 131; of Hoch, Danny, 36–37, 40, 41, 47; of Jones, Edward P., 122, 125–27, 129; of post-soul fiction, 112–23, 147; of Randall , Alice, 202; of Senna, Danzy, 132, 137–41 anti-racism: commodification of, 53, 62; and pedagogy, 162–63, 191, 193, 194, 199; and “political correctness,” 146; seeds of, 3, 5, 16, 26, 101, 104–10, 148, 151–52, 203–9; strategies of, 35, 48–49, 52, 55, 63–64, 78. See also Race Traitor journal; Southern Poverty Law Center anti-Semitism, 65–67, 72–77, 98, 205, 226n207. See also Holocaust appropriation, cultural, 1–5, 69, 71, 79–80, 190; of blues music, 31; of hip-hop, 1–2, 27, 31, 34, 40, 58, 79; of jazz, 1–2, 66, 74–75, 79, 175. See also blackface minstrelsy Arizona ban of ethnic studies, 208–9 Ashe, Bertram, 112 Autobiography of Malcolm X, The (Haley and Malcolm X), 106 Baker, Houston A., 157, 159, 165, 167, 174, 241n53 Baldwin, James, 26, 55, 67, 191, 193, 198, 199; The Fire Next Time, 106 Baraka, Amiri (Leroi Jones), 55, 75 Batson, C. Daniel, 6, 9, 152, 212n22, 216n68 Beastie, Boys, The, 27 Beatty, Paul, 55, 58 Beloved (Morrison), 193, 206, 208, 226n220; as book club selection, 85, 106; film adaptation of, 80–81, 101–2, 104, 105, 181; as neo-slavery fiction, 117, 119; on Oprah Winfrey Show, 101–2, 104, 105 Benjamin, Jessica, 9, 95 Berlant, Lauren, 8, 11, 12, 103, 105, 108, 214n53 Berlin, Irving, 66 bildungsroman, 113, 134, 236n31 Black and White, 1 Black Entertainment Television (BET), 30 blackface minstrelsy; advertisement for, 4; history of, 1, 3–4, 66; and Jews, 5, 71–72; on television, 46, 49 black-Jewish relations, 5, 10, 28, 56, 65–78, 96–99 black nationalism, 92; anti-Semitism of, 66–67, 75; and Black Panthers, 55; Cleaver, Eldridge, 55, 72, 106, 145; Farrakhan, Louis, 67, 77; in hip-hop music, 31, 41; Muhammad, Elijah, 60; Nation of Islam, 67; post-soul critique of, 112; X, Malcolm, 51, 55, 60, 61, 106, 160– 62, 170–71, 193, 198, 199, 206, 226n211 248 . index Black on White (Roediger), 192 Black Panthers. See under black nationalism Bluest Eye, The (Morrison), 81, 83, 88, 93–96, 100, 109 Blum, Lawrence, 104 Bobo, Jacqueline, 116 Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo, 96, 204–6 book clubs, 203, 208; African American Literature Book Club (aalbc.com), 125; age of members, 90–91, 96, 97, 99, 106–8, 129; in Boston, 2, 13, 15–16, 21–24, 81–85, 89–93, 96–148; compared to college classroom, 174, 191–92; experiential vs. analytic reading in, 85–87, 113, 114, 134, 142; influenced by locality , 110–11, 113–16, 132, 138–39, 142–48; racial composition of, 21–24, 114–33, 138–48, 173, 203; public sphere impact of, 82–84, 87–89, 103–10, 142–48. See also Oprah’s Book Club Boston: abolitionism in, 114; book clubs in, 2, 15–16, 21–24, 81–85, 89–93, 96–148; demographics of, 114–15, 143; history of racism in, 16, 106, 114, 134–35, 143–44, 235n8; presentday race relations in, 24, 83, 88, 108, 113–15, 122, 131–34, 138, 142–48 Brazil, 136, 137, 142 Brodkin, Karen, 67 Brown, Claude, 55 Brown Girl, Brownstones (Marshall), 96–97, 107 Bush, George, 159–60, 176 Bush, George W., 35, 83, 106, 108, 114, 129, 177, 182 Butler, Judith, 10, 112 Cane River (Tademy), 89, 103, 105, 229n6 Cantor, Eddie, 66 Caplan, Pat, 17, 19 Carby, Hazel, 203 Carter, Stephen L., 79; The Emperor of Ocean Park (Carter), 79, 106 Caucasia (Senna), 15–16, 85, 110, 116, 208; reader responses to, 90, 92, 98, 100, 102, 114, 132–48; textual analysis of, 111–14, 134–38 civil-rights movement, 64, 103, 109, 112, 122, 176; Jewish involvement in, 5, 57, 65–69, 72, 77, 233n104; legislation of, 122; police suppression of, 104, 153, 160. See also King, Martin Luther, Jr.; X, Malcolm Clarke, Breena, 79...