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1 online resource |
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Introduction: producing the ground of difference -- No easy place or time: the Black side of segregation -- Lost causes and reclaimed spaces: "history" as the autobiography of Southern Whiteness -- Domestic reconstruction: white homes, "Black Mammies," and "new women" -- Bounding consumption: "for colored" and "for white" -- Deadly amusements: spectacle lynchings and the contradictions of segregation as culture -- Stone mountains: Lillian Smith, Margaret Mitchell, and whiteness divided -- American whiteness |
| Summary |
Making Whiteness is a profoundly important work that explains how and why whiteness came to be such a crucial, embattled--and distorting--component of twentieth-century American identity. In intricately textured detail and with passionately mastered analysis, Grace Elizabeth Hale shows how, when faced with the active citizenship of their ex-slaves after the Civil War, white southerners re-established their dominance through a cultural system based on violence and physical separation. And in a bold and transformative analysis of the meaning of segregation for the nation as a whole, she explains how white southerners' creation of modern "whiteness" was, beginning in the 1920s, taken up by the rest of the nation as a way of enforcing a new social hierarchy while at the same time creating the illusion of a national, egalitarian, consumerist democracy. By showing the very recent historical "making" of contemporary American whiteness and by examining how the culture of segregation, in all its murderous contradictions, was lived, Hale makes it possible to imagine a future outside it. Her vision holds out the difficult promise of a truly democratic American identity whose possibilities are no longer limited and disfigured by race. From the Trade Paperback edition |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-408) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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African Americans -- Segregation -- Southern States -- History
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White people -- Race identity -- Southern States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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African Americans -- Segregation
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Race relations
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Social conditions
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White people -- Race identity
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Segregatie.
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Noirs américains -- États-Unis (sud) -- Ségrégation -- Histoire.
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Blancs -- États-Unis (sud) -- Identité collective.
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Southern States -- Race relations
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Southern States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90004000
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Southern States
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États-Unis (sud) -- Relations interethniques.
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États-Unis (sud) -- États-Unis (sud) -- Conditions sociales -- 1865-1945.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780307487933 |
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0307487938 |
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1299258026 |
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9781299258020 |
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