NOTES OF A WHITE BLACK WOMAN: RACE COLOR COMMUNITY

Scales-Trent, Judy

ISBN 10: 027101430X / ISBN 13: 9780271014302

Edité par The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, PA, 1995

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viii. Appendix. End Notes. 198pp. Blue cloth boards with bright gilt title on spine. Pictorial Dust Jacket. Author being of light complextion describes what it is like to be a "White" Black woman to both in a white and black communities. She describes how our racial purity laws have operated over the past four hundred years.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: NOTES OF A WHITE BLACK WOMAN: RACE COLOR COMMUNITY
• Éditeur: The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, PA
• Date de parution: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 027101430X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780271014302
• Reliure: Cloth
• Édition: First Edition
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Type de livre: Hardcover

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Synopsis

While the "one-drop rule" in the United States dictates that people with any African ancestry are black, many black Americans have white skin. Notes of a White Black Woman is one woman's attempt to describe what it is like to be a "white" black woman and to live simultaneously inside and outside of both white and black communities.

Law professor Judy Scales-Trent begins by describing how our racial purity laws have operated over the past four hundred years. Then, in a series of autobiographical essays, she addresses how race and color interact in relationships between men and women, within families, and in the larger community. Scales-Trent ultimately explores the question of what we really mean by "race" in this country, once it is clear that race is not a tangible reality as reflected through color.

Scales-Trent uses autobiography both as a way to describe these issues and to develop a theory of the social construction of race. She explores how race and color intertwine through black and white families and across generations; how members of both black and white communities work to control group membership; and what happens to relations between black men and women when the layer of color is placed over the already difficult layer of race. She addresses how one can tell―and whether one can tell―who, indeed, is "black" or "white." Scales-Trent also celebrates the richness of her bicultural heritage and shows how she has revised her teaching methods to provide her law students with a multicultural education.

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Judy Scales-Trent teaches at the SUNY-Buffalo School of Law.