TY  - BOOK
AU  - Andrews,William L.
AU  - Baker,Barbara A.
AU  - Bauer,Dale M.
AU  - Castronovo,Russ
AU  - Chiwengo,Ngwarsungu
AU  - Conley Kilinski,April
AU  - Connor,Kimberly Rae
AU  - Ernest,John
AU  - Kumar,Nita N.
AU  - Lawrence,Amanda M.
AU  - Levine,Robert S.
AU  - Lewis,Leslie W.
AU  - Long,Lisa
AU  - Long,Lisa A.
AU  - Mccaskill,Barbara
AU  - Mckay,Nellie Y.
AU  - Meyer,Sabine
AU  - Portelli,Alessandro
AU  - Sullivan,James D.
TI  - White Scholars/African American Texts
SN  - 9780813535982
AV  - E184.7 .W48 2005
U1  - 305.896073/00711 
PY  - 2005///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ : 
PB  - Rutgers University Press, 
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Study and teaching (Higher)
KW  - American literature
KW  - African American authors
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Education, Higher
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Teachers, White
KW  - White people
KW  - Whites
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - What makes someone an authority? What makes one person's knowledge more credible than another's? In the ongoing debates over racial authenticity, some attest that we can know each other's experiences simply because we are all "human," while others assume a more skeptical stance, insisting that racial differences create unbridgeable gaps in knowledge. Bringing new perspectives to these perennial debates, the essays in this collection explore the many difficulties created by the fact that white scholars greatly outnumber black scholars in the study and teaching of African American literature. Contributors, including some of the most prominent theorists in the field as well as younger scholars, examine who is speaking, what is being spoken and what is not, and why framing African American literature in terms of an exclusive black/white racial divide is problematic and limiting. In highlighting the "whiteness" of some African Americanists, the collection does not imply that the teaching or understanding of black literature by white scholars is definitively impossible. Indeed such work is not only possible, but imperative. Instead, the essays aim to open a much needed public conversation about the real and pressing challenges that white scholars face in this type of work, as well as the implications of how these challenges are met
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813537733
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813537733
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780813537733/original
ER  -