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169 accommodationism: black, 151–152; blind, 155 acting white, 99 activism, 14, 19; community, 69; scholar-, 18 African: “black as an,” 145; captives, 114; colonialism, 70; diaspora, 112; features, 73, 116–117; Ibos, 147; indentured servants, 158n5; lighter skinned, 115; women, 115. See also African Americans; beauty; skin/skinned; slavery African Americans: and black authenticity , 72, 152; and black feminism, 13, 47, 50–55, 59, 89, 93, 100, 141; and black nationalism, 72; and black realities, 135; and colloquialism, 101; class elitism, 134, 137, 139; concept of blackness, 145; and culture, 145; and culpability, 16, 25, 115, 133; debate over Precious, 143–149 (see also Precious); faith in white goodwill, as dangerous, 152; and history, 133, 145; and ideals of beauty, 105–106; and hair, 110, 112, 113–114; and literature, 100, 133; male leaders, 122; male privilege, 159n6; and popular culture, 116, 125; queer, 13, 82, 87–89, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 141, 159n6, 162n16; and representation in movies, 127–128; and Santa Claus, 146; and satire , 68; as slave-owners, 16, 24; taboos, 89, 94; women, 116; and violence, 72, 109. See also beauty; elites; pop culture; rape; womanhood African Americans, as pathological, 2, 4, 10, 14, 43, 68, 75, 88, 110, 118, 132; angry and violent, 89; and behavior, 25, 74–76; discourse, 12, 16; and mindset, 23; and notions, 18; and self-hate, 27; whites’ obsession with stereotypes of, 134. See also pathology anti-white bias, 107 Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Johnson), 137 Awkward, Michael, 51 Baldwin, James, 25, 59, 102, 107, 112, 127 Bamboozled (Lee), 134, 158n13 Barbies, 126–127, 129 Bassard, Katherine Clay, 22 Beatty, Paul, 9–10, 16–17, 65, 67–68 beauty, 17, 105, 108–113, 116, 120, 124–126, 129; and black, 105, 114; and ideal, 108; and white, 115, 19, 121–123, 125; and white standards of, 111; and white women’s, 128 Beloved (Morrison), 11, 16, 42, 45, 47, 50, 62 Birth of a Nation (Griffith), 97, 140 blacks. See African Americans “Black Crisis Shuffle: Fiction, Race, and Simulation,” (Murray), 81 Black No More (Schuyler), 122 Blind Side, The (John Lee Hancock), 132 blindness, 57, 108, 152; gendered, 50; patriarchal , 57; white, 134; willful, 2, 37 Blow, Charles M., 90–91, 141–142, 144 Bluest Eye, The (Morrison), 104, 123–124 Boondocks (McGrudger), 158n13 Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo, 108 Boyz n the Hood, 60 Index 170 Index Bronson, Po and Ashley Merryman, 146 Breaking the Silence: Toward A Black Feminist Criticism (Ikard), 14, 55 Carby, Hazel, 30 Chappelle, Dave, 136, 138 Civil Rights Movement, 63, 68, 155; and strategies, 69 Cleaver, Eldridge, 59, 89, 98 colorblind/ness, 9–10; and politics, 15 Colored Museum, The (Wolfe), 96 colorism, 105, 114, 117–118, 120–121, 134 conservative institutions, 86 complicity, 24–25, 30, 41, 42, 50, 55, 88, 135, 154–155; black, 3, 5, 16, 67; and conscious , 153;–free, 68; slaves’, 41; unconscious , 6, 11, 53, 66, 81, 123; willful, 42 Cosby, Bill, 13, 138, 157n18 Crenshaw, Kimberlé W., 154 crisis, 34, 76, 93, 146; ideological, 43; white identity, 22, 26; emotional, 77; moral, 33; racial, 1–2, 43. See also rape “Criteria of Negro Art” (Du Bois), 136 Crummell, Alexander, 93 culpability, 16, 25, 115, 133 Dave Chappelle Show, The (Chappelle), 158n13 Delaney, Martin, 93 Dickson-Carr, Darryl, 68 dirty laundry, 15, 18, 94, 132 Disney, 127 Donaldson, Susan V., 22 Douglass, Frederick, 4–7, 11, 115 Du Bois, W. E. B, 122, 136–137, 139 Dust Tracks on a Road (Hurston), 120–121, 161n18 Dyer, Richard, 23 “Dyes and Dolls: Multicultural Barbie and the Merchandising of Difference” (Ducille), 127 Dyson, Michael Eric, 92, 138 Eagleton, Terry, 11 elites, 18, 34, 66, 137; black, 16, 41, 94, 121, 122, 139, 152; black slaveholders, 16; lightskinned blacks as, 119–120; white, 14, 92, 153 Ellison, Ralph, 1–4, 98, 122 emasculation, 17, 50, 62, 72, 78 Erasure (Everett), 134, 136, erasure, 37–38; social, 2; of African American humanity, 39, 41 Everett, Percival, 98, 134, 136 Eyerman, Ron, 24, 158n9 femininity, white, 111, 122, 125 Flava Flav (aka William Drayton), 136 Fletcher, Geoffrey, 136 Fire Next Time, The (Baldwin), 25–26, 109 freedom, 3, 22, 26–27, 29, 35, 38–40, 43–44, 70, 139, 144, 152–154, 159n57 Fro-lific, 126–127, 129 gendered racism, 14, 60, 74, 78 Gilroy, Paul, 5 Good Hair (Rock), 112 Great Recession, 9, 11 Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (Stanley Kramer), 128 Haggins, Bambi, 66 hair, 104, 110, 112...

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