Cinderella Story A Scholarly Sketchbook about Race, Identity, Barack Obama, the Human Spirit, and Other Stuff that Matters

by Rolling, James Haywood, Jr.

• ISBN13: 9780759111769
• ISBN10: 0759111766
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-03-16
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

Cinderella Story is an experimental autoethnography that explores critical racial issues in America through the media of language and images. James Haywood Rolling Jr. asks: How do words and images-involving stories and paradigms, past and future, perceptions of beauty and ugliness-become flesh? How are they done and undone? In this supple and complex narrative, the author peers deeply into his own life and attitudes, and into the racial images and ideas made explicit by American history as a whole, to sort out fact from fiction in new and ingenious ways. Book jacket.

Author Biography

James Haywood Rolling Jr. is associate professor of arts education at Syracuse University.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Prologue: An Old Story	p. 1
Borderlines	p. 9
Homelessness	p. 23
Origins	p. 39
Breech Births and Cinderella Endings	p. 51
Monsters Deconstructed	p. 65
Figuring Myself Out	p. 89
Messing Around with Identity Constructs	p. 111
Disruptions	p. 121
Secular Blasphemy	p. 135
Propaganda	p. 159
Invisibility and In/di/visuality	p. 173
The Meeting	p. 199
Self-Portrait, with Eyes Closed	p. 203
(Re)Appearances	p. 205
Self-Portrait, with Backlighting	p. 211
The One-Drop Rule	p. 213
Self-Portrait, with Possibilities	p. 217
Epilogue, with New Story Valued	p. 219
Notes	p. 227
Bibliography	p. 249
Index	p. 259
About the Author	p. 263
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