Beyond the White Negro: Empathy and Anti-Racist Reading

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Beyond the White Negro Empathy and Anti-Racist Reading Kimberly Chabot Davis University of Illinois Press Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield Part of chapter 1 appeared in a different form in At Home and Abroad: Historicizing Twentieth-Century Whiteness in Literature and Performance. Copyright 2009 by the University of Tennessee Press. Reprinted with permission. Part of chapter 2 appeared in a different form in the International Journal of Cultural Studies 7.4 (2004), by Sage Publications Ltd. All rights reserved. © Kimberly Chabot Davis.© 2014 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America 1 2 3 4 5 c p 5 4 3 2 1 ∞ This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Davis, Kimberly Chabot, 1968– Beyond the white negro: empathy and anti-racist reading / Kimberly Chabot Davis. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-252-03843-3 (cloth: alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-252-07994-8 (pbk.: alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-252-09631-0 (ebook) 1. Whites—United States—Attitudes. 2. Anti-racism—United States. 3. United States—Race relations. 4. African American arts—Influence. 5. Empathy. I. Title. E184.A1D2828  2014 305.800973—dc23  2013050780 ...