White Lies: Race and the Myths of Whiteness by Berger, Maurice
White Lies: Race and the Myths of Whiteness by Berger, Maurice

White Lies: Race and the Myths of Whiteness

The acclaimed work that debunks our myths and false assumptions about race in America Maurice Berger grew...
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Author: Maurice Berger
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White Lies: Race and the Myths of Whiteness by Berger, Maurice

White Lies: Race and the Myths of Whiteness

$21.60
White Lies: Race and the Myths of Whiteness by Berger, Maurice

White Lies: Race and the Myths of Whiteness

$21.60
Author: Maurice Berger
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

The acclaimed work that debunks our myths and false assumptions about race in America

Maurice Berger grew up hypersensitized to race in the charged environment of New York City in the sixties. His father was a Jewish liberal who worshiped Martin Luther King, Jr.; his mother a dark-skinned Sephardic Jew who hated black people. Berger himself was one of the few white kids in his Lower East Side housing project.

Berger's unusual experience--and his determination to examine the subject of race for its multiple and intricate meanings--makes White Lies a fresh and startling book.

Berger has become a passionate observer of race matters, searching out the subtle and not-so-subtle manifestations of racial meaning in everyday life. In White Lies, he encourages us to reckon with our own complex and often troubling opinions about race. The result is an uncommonly honest and affecting look at race in America today--free of cant, surprisingly entertaining, unsettled and unsettling.

Author: Maurice Berger
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 04/28/2000
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780374527150


Review Citation(s):
Black Issues Book Review 09/01/2000 pg. 18

About the Author

Maurice Berger grew up in the Simon Baruch Houses, a public housing project in New York City. He is a Senior Fellow at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School for Social Research. He lives in New York City.




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