Oprah's Book Club and the politics of cross-racial empathy

International Journal of Cultural Studies

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 399-419

  Davis, Kimberly Chabot ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

affect; identification; Oprah; race; reception studies; sympathy; whiteness

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247671991     PISSN: 13678779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1367877904047861     Document Type: Article

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