HOW CAN WE NARRATE the founding moment of emancipation, the achievement at long last by four million people of the ownership of their own mid-nineteenth-century selves?
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Making whiteness
the culture of segregation in the South, 1890-1940
1st ed.
by Grace Elizabeth Hale
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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. Grace Elizabeth Hale shows how, when faced with the active citizenship of their ex-slaves after the Civil War, white southerners reestablished their dominance through a cultural system based on violence and physical separation.
And in 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.
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African Americans, History, Race identity, Race relations, Segregation, Social conditions, Whites, Southern states, race relations, Southern states, social conditions, African americans, segregation, Race discrimination, White people, 15.85 history of America, Segregatie, Noirs américains, Ségrégation, Histoire, Blancs, Identité collective, Relations interethniques, Conditions socialesPlaces
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Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940
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Making whiteness: the culture of segregation in the South, 1890-1940
1998, Pantheon Books
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Making whiteness: the culture of segregation in the South 1890-1940
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