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Acting Black: College, Identity, and the Performance of Racereviewed by Richard Verdugo - 2004 Title: Acting Black: College, Identity, and the Performance of Race Author(s): Sarah Susannah Willie Publisher: Routledge/Falmer, New York ISBN: 0415944090, Pages: 224, Year: 2003 Search for book at Amazon.com What exactly did it mean to be Chicano, black, Native American,
or Asian American back in the 1960s, 1970s, or 1980s? Sarah
Willie's book, Acting Black: College, Identity, and the
Performance of Race, attempts to examine how different college
settings affect race identity and how such identity is played out
(or performed) in these settings. Two cohorts of black
students who attended either Howard University or Northwestern
University at some time between 1967 and 1988 are interviewed and
their responses analyzed.
Acting Black seems to me to comprise three
sections. Section one (chapters 1-4) is an introduction to
the topic, a brief review of blacks in higher education, a memoir
of the author's own college experiences, and brief descriptions of
both Howard and Northwestern Universities. Section two
(chapters 5-6) is the first analysis section in which Willie
compares and contrasts the experiences of two groups of black
students: one group that attended Northwestern University, and a
second that attended Howard University. Section three
(chapter 7-10) examines the... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Richard Verdugo
National Education Association E-mail Author Richard Verdugo is a staff associate for the National Education Association, Washington, DC.
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