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How does a Jewish boy who spent the bulk of his youth on the basketball courts of Brooklyn wind up teaching in one of the city's pioneering black studies department? This memoir speaks to the ways in which political commitments emerge from and are infused with the personal choices we all make.Bay Area Figurative Art: 1950-1965This is a wonderful book wit

Title	:	White Boy: A Memoir
Author	:	Mark Naison
Rating	:	4.57 (458 Votes)
Asin	:	1566399424
Format Type	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	256Pages
Publish Date	:	2014-6-27
Language	:	English

How does a Jewish boy who spent the bulk of his youth on the basketball courts of Brooklyn wind up teaching in one of the city's pioneering black studies department? This memoir speaks to the ways in which political commitments emerge from and are infused with the personal choices we all make.

Bay Area Figurative Art: 1950-1965This is a wonderful book with a specific emphasis on the bay area figurative scene circa 50's & 60's. "White Boy," presents an alternative to the standard understanding of "whiteness," which mandates that it be the political and cultural antithesis of "blackness." Naison's book presents a more hopeful picture. In the process, readers learn of the trials and joys this "white boy" faced living a life -- as an activist, lover and teacher -- that transgressed the racial mores of his day. We live on a lake and the stories are very appropriate and timely for our setting.. This book, The Discovery of America, brings together works that have appeared over the many years that this wonderful artist appeared in The New Yorker. I hope his long out-of-print titles will be back soon now that he's gone.. But if we can see this, it because we're seeing it with eyes he opened.. Naison's memoir presents an often neglected story in the history of whiteness in America, one where racial difference can help bring different people together instead of constantly keeping them apart.And just as Naison's life transgressed racial norms, his book defies standards as well. Caroline Jones has done a stunning job, in her book 'Bay Area Figurative Art', of defining and chronicaling the counter movement, to abstract expressionism, of representational, figurative art, in California, from 1950-1965. Slow at times, not much

From Publishers Weekly For our generation, writes Fordham University African-American studies professor Naison, part of becoming American was becoming culturally black.' In this forthright and thoughtful memoir, Naison (Communists in Harlem During the Depression), who became, in the early 1970s, one of the first professors (and the only white man) at Fordham's new Institute of Afro-American Studies, recalls a lifetime of fascination with black history and culture and of antidiscrimination activism. He recalls his days in Students for a Democratic Society and the Weathermen; his political organizing efforts in the Bronx; and his decision to turn from revolutionary activism to academia as radical movements fell apart or became increasingly fractious and militant in the '70s. Naison grew up worshiping black athletes and musicians; as neighborhood tensions grew, he became increasingly estranged from his parents and found himself caught up in civil rights