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Title: Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons by Jane Lazarre ISBN: 0-8223-2044-4 Publisher: Duke Univ Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: September, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (6 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: A very disturbed woman
Comment: Let's get something straight right up front; The book is well written but its' message will leave anyone not suffering from mental illness in a state of rage.
The author is not just white but is more specifically Jewish which puts her claims of white privilege on their head.
Here's another interesting nugget of information: She writes she was raised as a Communist by her father and imbued with the ideas of Marxism. Couple this with the fact she grew up tortured by not having her mother,died young,and you got the makings of someone with SERIOUS mental problems.
Shorthly after the birth of her two sons she begins to lose her identity (hell I'm being nice, she outright becomes ashamed of 'being white) and begins to adopt the racial identity of being black; she makes the argument she is because her sons are black and her husband is black so she magically becomes black by association and ultra close approximation.
Her pedantic is absolutely intolerable and reaches its' zenith when she asserts whites owe blacks such a huge debt that the only way we as whites can ever repay that debt is to stop being white (one is left with the ditinct impression she means as a race altogether).
The only agreeable truth in this book comes at the end when she realizes her two sons are black and (thankfully, from her point of view) not white; she originally believed them to be biracial,a term she comes to realize is laughable and a fantasy. There is truth in this. Remember the recent 2002 Movie awards when Hally Berry won best actress? Hally's mother is white,her father is black. Which half accepted that award? Which half does Hally Berry see herself as?
Rating: 4
Summary: RACE?????
Comment: All you people who write reviews on how great this book is especially on issues of race and gender and ethnicity etc etc did you even read the book??? SHE SAYS VERY CLEAR THAT RACE DOESNT EXSIST....most people know that...so how can she write so well on race if she says right off the top that there is no such thing???? hmmmmm
For all those who havent read the book it is very interesting...im sure if she could sew her lips to bell hooks bum she would :)
Rating: 5
Summary: A brightly shining book
Comment: This book succeeds on two levels at the same time. Jane Lazarre has written a beautiful memoir of her life as a white woman who first marries a black man and then becomes the mother of black sons. She has reflected on her experience, and given it deep meaning, which she shares in this book, as well.
This is an incredibly powerful book, which goes right to the heart of what it means to be white in America. Lazarre's experiences are her own, but the lessons she draws from her life are important lessons for all of us, especially those of us who are white. I recommend this book without reservation to anyone who wants to think again about race, ethnicity, and integrity.
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Title: The Gettin Place by Susan Straight ISBN: 0385486596 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 14 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Sympathy and Solidarity and Other Essays (Feminist Constructions) by Sandra Lee Bartky ISBN: 0847697797 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield (Non NBN) Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride ISBN: 1573225789 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: February, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: French Feminism Reader by Kelly Oliver ISBN: 0847697673 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield (Non NBN) Pub. Date: 26 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Out There: Marginalization and Contemporary Culture by Russell Ferguson, Martha Gever, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Cornel West ISBN: 026256064X Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 11 February, 1992 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
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