Anthologies of African American Writing

Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White

"Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White" . Ed. David R. Roediger. New York: Schocken, 1998. xii+353 pp.

pt. I.; Confronting Whiteness and Seeing Through Race. Dialogue with a White Friend (1940) /; W.E.B. Du Bois --; Representations of Whiteness in the Black Imagination (1992) /; Bell Hooks --; Whites as Heathens and Christians (1830) /; David Walker --; On Race and Change (1874) /; William Wells Brown --; What Shall We Do with the White People? (1860) /; "Ethiop" (William J. Wilson) --; The Color of Heaven (1996) /; Mia Bay --; Klansman's Prayer, cartoon (Undated) /; Charles Johnson --; Our White Folks (1927) /; George S. Schuyler --; Debating the Senator (1917) /; J.A. Rogers --; pt. II.; Whiteness as Property: The Workings of Race. Blacks, Whites and Work (1935) /; Zora Neale Hurston --; Whiteness as Property (1993) /; Cheryl Harris. White Wages (1978) /; Amiri Baraka --; Enslaved (1976) /; Elma Stuckey --; Speech (1940) /; Robert Hayden --; White Man (1936) /; Langston Hughes --; Shadow of the Plantation (1948) /; Harry Haywood --; Snapshots of the Cotton South (1948) /; Frank Marshall Davis --; White Superiority in America (1988) /; Derrick Bell --; pt. III.; The White World and Whiter America. From Playing in the Dark (1992) /; Toni Morrison --; What America Would Be Like Without Blacks (1970) /; Ralph Ellison --; The Poor White Musician (1915) /; James Weldon Johnson --; Vanilla Nightmares (1986) /; Adrian Piper --; On Being "White" ... and Other Lies (1984) /; James Baldwin --; The White Witch (1935) /; James Weldon Johnson --; The Souls of White Folk (1920) /; W.E.B. Du Bois --; pt. IV.; Some White Folks. Jefferson Davis as a Representative of Civilization (1890) /; W.E.B. Du Bois --; On Aaron Henry (1995) /; Charles M. Payne --; On Herman Melville (1988) /; Toni Morrison --; The Caucasian Storms Harlem (1927) /; Rudolph Fisher --; Guerrilla Scholar on the Loose (1984) /; Greg Tate --; On White Negroes (1988) /; Nelson George --; The Dummy in the Window (1981) /; Alice Walker --; Slave on the Block (1934) /; Langston Hughes --; John Brown (1941) /; Jacob Lawrence --; pt. V.; White Women, White Men. Going to Meet the Man (1965) /; James Baldwin --; Mrs. Auld (1845) /; Frederick Douglass --; The Jealous Mistress (1861) /; Harriet Jacobs --; Wimodaughsis (1892) /; Anna Julia Cooper --; The Case Stated (1895) /; Ida B. Wells-Barnett --; On White Women Workers (1945) /; Richard Wright --; Health Card (1956) /; Alice Childress --; White Men as Performers in the Lynching Ritual (1984) /; Trudier Harris --; From Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism (1995) /; Lewis Gordon --; Madonna: Plantation Mistress or Soul Sister (1992) /; Bell Hooks --; pt. VI.; White Terrors. White Man's Guilt (1965) /; James Baldwin --; Slavery and Soul Murder (1995) /; Nell Irvin Painter --; Old Lem (1939) /; Sterling A. Brown --; The Lynching (1922) /; Claude McKay --; Muster (1861) /; Harriet Jacobs --; Mob Madness (1936) /; Marion Vera Cuthbert --; A Party Down at the Square (Undated, circa 1940) /; Ralph Ellison.

• Parascandola, Louis. "Library Journal" (1998)
• Seaman, Donna. "Booklist" (1998).

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