Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940 by Hale, Grace Elizabeth

Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940

Making Whiteness is a profoundly important work that explains how and why whiteness came to be such...
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Author: Grace Elizabeth Hale
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Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940 by Hale, Grace Elizabeth

Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940

CHF 27.63

Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940

CHF 27.63
Author: Grace Elizabeth Hale
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Grace Elizabeth Hale
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06/01/1999
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.23w x 0.92d
ISBN: 9780679776208

About the Author
Grace Elizabeth Hale is an assistant professor of American history at the University of Virginia. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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