{"product_id":"beyond-the-whiteness-of-whiteness-memoir-of-a-white-mother-of-black-sons-paperback","title":"Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJane Lazarre\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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. This Twentieth Anniversary Edition features a new preface, in which Lazarre's elegy for Mother Emanuel AME in Charleston, South Carolina, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and so many others, reminds us of the continued resonance of race in American life. As #BlackLivesMatter gains momentum, \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Whiteness of Whiteness\u003c\/i\u003e is more urgent and essential than ever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJane Lazarre is the author of many books, including the memoirs \u003ci\u003eWet Earth and Dreams: A Narrative of Grief and Recovery\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Mother Knot\u003c\/i\u003e, both also published by Duke University Press, and the novels \u003ci\u003eInheritance\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSome Place Quite Unknown\u003c\/i\u003e. She founded and directed the undergraduate writing program at Eugene Lang College at the New School for ten years and taught creative writing and literature there for twenty years. She has also taught at the City College of New York and Yale University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47468581781757,"sku":"9780822361664","price":57.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/HasNnVlE7o9780822361664.webp?v=1777290506","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/beyond-the-whiteness-of-whiteness-memoir-of-a-white-mother-of-black-sons-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}