Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons [#195581]

Jane Lazarre, "Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons"
English | ISBN: 0822361477 | 2016 | 184 pages | PDF | 12 MB
"I am Black," Jane Lazarre's son tells her. "I have a Jewish mother, but I am not 'biracial.' That term is meaningless to me." In this moving memoir, Jane Lazarre, the white Jewish mother of now adult Black sons, offers a powerful meditation on motherhood and racism in America as she tells the story of how she came to understand the experiences of her African American husband, their growing sons, and their extended family. Recounting her education, as a wife, mother, and scholar-teacher, into the realities of African American life, Lazarre shows how although racism and white privilege lie at the heart of American history and culture, any of us can comprehend the experience of another through empathy and learning.