An edition of Making whiteness (1998)

Making whiteness

the culture of segregation in the South, 1890-1940

1st ed.
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An edition of Making whiteness (1998)

Making whiteness

the culture of segregation in the South, 1890-1940

1st ed.
  • 7 Want to read

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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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Language
English
Pages
427

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Cover of: Making Whiteness
Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940
June 1, 1999, Vintage
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Cover of: Making whiteness
Making whiteness: the culture of segregation in the South, 1890-1940
1998, Pantheon Books
in English - 1st ed.
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Making whiteness: the culture of segregation in the South 1890-1940
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-408) and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305.8/00973
Library of Congress
F215 .H18 1998, F215.H18 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 427 p. :
Number of pages
427

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL693643M
ISBN 10
0679442634
LCCN
97040906
OCLC/WorldCat
37725567
Library Thing
80467
Goodreads
1520123

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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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