May 3, 2002
A 'White Boy' in African-American Studies
A white person who teaches African-American studies is sometimes the focus of startling questions. I decided to write this after a particularly bizarre encounter at a small, private tennis club in Brooklyn in the fall of 1996. After losing a long match in the semifinals of the club tournament, I was recovering in the clubhouse when a middle-aged white man sat down next to me and asked what I did for a living. "I'm a college professor," I said. "What do you teach?" he asked. "African-American
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