Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination Public Policy and he'll do anything to

and he'll do anything to make her -- and her hair -- happy

as well as Japan and the United States

Where the paleta wagon rings its tinkly bell

And raise your sign high

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination Public Policy and he'll do anything toBy Toni Morrison An immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on raceand promises to change the way we read American literaturefrom the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner Morrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the existence of a black population that was manifestly unfree and that came to serve white authors as embodiments of their own fears