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

Hale, Grace Elizabeth

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ISBN 10: 0679442634 ISBN 13: 9780679442639

Casa editrice: Pantheon Books, 1998

Riassunto

A historian traces how, in the wake of the Civil War, white Southerners formed their identity through violence against ex-slaves and separation from them, and how the culture of segregation continues to affect American society. 12,500 first printing.

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

Grace Elizabeth Hale is an assistant professor of American history at the University of Virginia.

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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 h

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Pantheon Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0679442634
• ISBN 13: 9780679442639
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 427
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile