White Fantasies of Race and Empathy
by
Alisha Gaines
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
In 1948, journalist Ray Sprigle traded his whiteness to live as a black man for four weeks. A little over a decade later, John Howard Griffin famously "became" black as well, traveling the American South in search of a certain kind of racial understanding. Contemporary history is littered...