White lies race and the myths of whiteness berger maurice 9780374527150 books amazonca. White lies race and the myths of whiteness ebook berger maurice amazonca kindle store skip to main contentca hello select your address kindle store hello sign in account lists account returns orders cart all gift cards best sellers prime gift ideas new . Start your review of white lies race and the myths of whiteness write a review oct 28 2007 sydney rated it really liked it this is a great book about race especially whiteness its written in very short chunks of just a few pages each and it reads almost like a conversation among all of these different voices bergers own his friends and other authors often quotes from different . White lies race and the myths of whiteness near the end of this powerful book art scholar maurice berger reveals that he had set out to produce a linear study of race but changed his mind. The acclaimed work that debunks our myths and false assumptions about race in americamaurice berger grew up hypersensitized to race in the charged environment of new york city in the sixties his father was a jewish liberal who worshiped martin luther king jr his mother a dark skinned sephardic jew who hated black people berger himself was one of the few white kids in his lower east side