Friday, September 10, 2004

Colored White

By Seth Sandronsky

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  1. David Roediger is definitely one of the best and most innovative historians of the past few decades.  To his credit, he acknowledges that he is simply adding on to a long tradition of analysis that black people have been doing for over a century.

    If you haven’t already, Seth, you should pick up a copy of Black on White: Black Writers on What it Means to be White, which is a collection of work compiled by Roediger.

    One of my favorites selections from that book is a short story by Langston Hughes called “Slave on the Block,” which is the most blistering critique of white liberalism I have ever read.  It would be hilarious if it weren’t so true.  Check it out.

    Posted by Justin Felux from San Antonio, TX  on  09/11  at  12:32 AM

  2. Justin,

    Greetings.  I have read Black on White: Black Writers on What it Means to be White.  This is a wonderful collection of writings.

    My turn to recommend a book: Soul By Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market by Walter Anderson (Harvard University Press, 1999).  The author analyzes and details “that vision thing” in the New Orleans slave market.  “It is a story of back and forth glances and estimations, of hushed conspiracies and loud boasts, of power, fear, and desire, of mistrust and dissimulation, of human beings broken down into parts and recomposed as commodities, of futures promised, purchased, and resisted.”

    Check it out, Justin.

    Regards,
    Seth

    Posted by Seth Sandronsky from  on  09/11  at  06:55 AM

  3. I haven’t read that one.  I will check it out, thanks.

    Posted by Justin Felux from San Antonio, TX  on  09/12  at  12:39 AM
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