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Acting Black: College, Identity, and the Performance of Race

reviewed 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
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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.)

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Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record Volume 106 Number 2, 2004, p. 262-266
https://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 11156, Date Accessed: 9/26/2020 3:27:55 PM

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