Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs

by David Ikard and David H. Ikard

Book Overview

In this incredibly timely book, David Ikard dismantles popular white supremacist tropes, which effectively devalue black life and trivialize black oppression. Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs investigates the tenacity and cultural capital of white redemption narratives in literature and popular media from Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Help.

In the book, Ikard explodes the fiction of a postracial society...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022649263X
• ISBN13: 9780226492636
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"