Title White boy : a memoir / Mark D. Naison

Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 225 pages) Contents Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Crown Heights in the 1950s; 2. Race Conscious; 3. Looking Down on Harlem; 4. Meeting Ruthie; 5. Contested Territory; 6. Ball of Confusion; 7. Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide; 8. Bringing the War Home; 9. A White Man in Black Studies; 10. Riders on the Storm; 11. Close to the Edge Summary "How does a Jewish boy who spent the bulk of his childhood on the basketball courts of Brooklyn wind up teaching in one of the city's pioneering black studies departments? Naison's odyssey begins as Brooklyn public schools respond to a new wave of Black migrants and Caribbean immigrants, and established residents flee to virtually all-white parts of the city or suburbs. Already alienated by his parent's stance on race issues and their ambitions for him, he has started on a separate ideological path by the time he enters Columbia College. Once he embarks on a long-term interracial relationship, becomes a member of SDS, focuses his historical work on black activists, and organizes community groups in the Bronx, his immersion in the radical politics of the 1960s has emerged as the center of his life. Determined to keep his ties to the Black community, even when the New Left splits along racial lines, Naison joined the fledgling African American studies program at Fordham, remarkable then as now for its commitment to interracial education."--Jacket Notes English Print version record Subject Naison, Mark D., 1946- Naison, Mark D., 1946- -- Relations with African Americans SUBJECT Naison, Mark, 1946- -- Relations with African Americans Naison, Mark, 1946- Naison, Mark D., 1946- fast Subject African Americans -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century College teachers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography Men, White -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography White people -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical. HISTORY -- State & Local. HISTORY -- State & Local -- General. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General. African Americans -- Study and teaching (Higher) College teachers Jews Men, White Race relations Relations with African Americans SUBJECT Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Race relations Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography New York (N.Y.) -- Race relations New York (N.Y.) -- Biography Subject New York (State) -- New York New York (State) -- New York -- Brooklyn Genre/Form Biographies History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781592138012 1592138012 9786612658563 6612658568

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