Beyond the White NegroCritics often characterize white consumption of African American culture as a form of theft that echoes the fantasies of 1950s era bohemians, or "White Negroes," who romanticized black culture as anarchic and sexually potent. In Beyond the White Negro, Kimberly Chabot Davis claims such a view fails to describe the varied politics of racial crossover in the past fifteen years. Davis analyzes how white engagement with African American novels, film