Fr. 45.90

In Defense of Uncle Tom - Why Blacks Must Police Racial Loyalty

English · Paperback / Softback

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This book shadows the usage of 'Uncle Tom' to understand how social norms associated with the phrase were constructed and enforced.

List of contents










1. Solidarity, social norms, and Uncle Tom; 2. Uncle Tom: 1865-1959; 3. The unwitting pioneers; 4. Uncle Tom: 1960-75; 5. No man was safe; 6. Uncle Tom today: 1976-present; 7. So what about Clarence?; 8. The curious case of Uncle Tom; 9. What now, Uncle Tom?

About the author

Brando Simeo Starkey is a writer and scholar. He holds degrees from Ohio State University and Harvard Law School. He was a postgraduate Research Fellow at Harvard Law and a Constance Baker Motley Fellow at the Equal Justice Society, and he previously taught law at Villanova Law School and the Thomas Jefferson School of Law.

Summary

This book shadows the usage of the racial slur 'Uncle Tom' throughout history to understand how social norms associated with the phrase were constructed, disseminated, applied, and enforced. Brando Simeo Starkey provocatively argues that blacks must police racial loyalty and that those successfully prosecuted must be punished with the label Uncle Tom.

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