"White boys, they're always innocent"

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Acknowledgments XI
4. Introduction 1
5. PART ONE. 1968 SURVIVING THE SIXTIES
6. Integration or Black Power? The Great Debate 11
7. 1. The Politics of Manhood and the Southern Black Experience
8. Introduction 21
9. "My father was from Alabama" 22
10. "Promised Land is just like the old plantation" 30
11. "I wouldn't want to treat anybody like I've been treated in Mississippi" 32
12. 2. Whites on the Front Lines of Racial Conflict
13. Introduction 42
14. "Stokely Carmichael ain't no better than me" 43
15. "You break your neck to do something, and they give you a hard time" 50
16. "Sometimes you wish you were black" 54
17. "I was the wrong color in my black mans eyes" 57
18. 3. Four Black Women and the Consciousness of the Sixties
19. Introduction 64
20. "I'm tired of being scared" 65
21. "This is no dream world, baby" 70
22. "Those that came from a different social experience I feared" 75
23. "Something happened in my childhood I've never forgotten" 82
24. 4. White Backlash: The Fear of a Black Majority and Other Nightmares
25. Introduction 89
26. "They're afraid the colored people are gonna move in and take over" 90
27. "The Congo nigger" 94
28. "We didn't have a great sense of racial awareness" 98
29. Bill Harcliff "It's just a strong apartheid on the street" / Diane Harcliff: "The whole racial thing makes me burst with sadness" 102
30. 5. Black Youth and the Ghetto Streets
31. Introduction 107
32. "White boys, they're always innocent" 108
33. "I would like to kill a white man, just to put it on the books" 111
34. "The marching and demonstrations is stupid" 116
35. "Denying you the right to be a man" 118
36. 6. The Paradox of Working-Class Racism
37. Introduction 122
38. "They've got the right to have every human dignity that I have" 125
39. "If I can help a colored man without hurting myself, I haven't got anything to lose" 128
40. "My oldest daughter married a black man" 133
41. 7. Black Workers: New Options and Old Problems
42. Introduction 137
43. "The Negro don't want to work" 138
44. "The postal system has become a Negro-type job" 139
45. "Being a man is being part of the world" 141
46. "These people had been treating me bad all my life, and I didn't know it" 146
47. "They call me an instigator" 149
48. "I'd come home bitching and yelling" 153
49. "This was my means of retaliating" 156
50. PART TWO. 1978-1987 GROWING OLDER IN THE SEVENTIES AND EIGHTIES
51. The Ambiguities of Racial Change 163
52. 8. "Still in the Struggle": Black Activists Ten Years Later
53. Introduction 172
54. "I'm going to protect this land" 173
55. "Dealing with the human issues" 181
56. "I haven't changed that much" 186
57. 9. White Lives and the Limits of Integration
58. Introduction 197
59. "The man is a damn fool who won't change his mind" 198
60. "That was such a strong time of change" 203
61. "The world changed exactly the way I was going" 205
62. "We've turned life itself into a quota business" 212
63. "What I really do is live in a white neighborhood" 214
64. 10. Black Youth: The Worsening Crisis
65. Introduction 220
66. "The American black man is a dying species" 221
67. "Without [the Black Panthers], my generation would be a different generation"' 226
68. "I had him and everything just changed" 234
69. "Two counts against me: I'm black and I'm gay" 238
70. 11. Blue-Collar Men in a Tight Economy
71. Introduction 245
72. "He's just a boy, Daddy" 246
73. "Even Walnut Creek, its integrating" 251
74. "The federal government and AT&T screwed up" 255
75. "Smelling like a rose" 259
76. "Peoples of forty, they're no longer thinking about a race thing" 265
77. 12. Men, Women, and Opportunity
78. Introduction 271
79. "I have not been able to achieve selfhood through the civil rights movement" 272
80. "If they had gave me the green light" 279
81. "To grow and develop with the times" 283
82. " I f I were a white guy . . ." 286
83. 13. Keeping the Spirit of the Sixties Alive
84. Introduction 291
85. "The caring factor" 292
86. "The way that you view humanity and the earth, those are the main things" 299
87. "My whole damn cultures gone" 304
88. "I as an individual will continue to resist" 310
89. Conclusion 315
90. Appendix: Methodology 327
91. Notes 331
92. Bibliographie Essay 337