Dear White People
"Right out of college, Justin Simien wrote a screenplay about the nuanced experiences of four black students on a predominantly white college campus ... Channeling the sensibility of the film into this book, Simien will keep you laughing with his humorous observations if you haven't seen the satiric film, [including quizzes to determine whether you've become the Token Black Friend]"--Amazon.com
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- Full title :Dear White People
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"Right out of college, Justin Simien wrote a screenplay about the nuanced experiences of four black students on a predominantly white college campus ... Channeling the sensibility of the film into this book, Simien will keep you laughing with his humorous observations if you haven't seen the satiric film, [including quizzes to determine whether you've become the Token Black Friend]"--Amazon.com
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- Publication Date:2014.
- Edition:37th ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Atria Books
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2014.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (159 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781476798103, 1476798109
- oclc:on1086027049
- LC Classification:PN6231.W444S56 2014
- Dewey Decimal:818/.602
Table of Contents
Intro; Dedication; Epigraph; Start Here; Black Myth Busters: Post-Racism; Please Stop Touching My Hair; Microaggressions; Please Stop Insisting That You're "Practically Black"; The N-Word: A Decision Tree; Black Myth Busters: Welfare; Reality TV is the New Blackface; Guide to Minstrelsy in Reality TV; Should You Wear Blackface? A Decision Tree; The Minimum Requirement of Black Friends Needed to Not Seem Racist Has Been Raised to Two; Tokens; Who's Black?; We Don't Know Why Kanye West Did That; Are You a Post-Racist?; Here's the Thing about Michael Jackson; Black Myth Busters: Dancing
Why Does the White Version Do Better?Black Myth Busters: Sports; There Are Shades of Black; The Paper Bag Test; Black Myth Busters: Affirmative Action; So You've Decided to "Go Black" and Not Come Back; Black Myth Busters: Giant Penises; Why You Can't Have a Dear Black People or a White History Month; Glossary of Terms; Acknowledgments; About the Author and the Illustrator; Copyright
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