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Making whiteness
the culture of segregation in the South, 1890-1940
By Hale, Grace Elizabeth
- ISBN
- 978-0-67944-263-9
- Publisher
- New York : Pantheon Books, c1998.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 1998
Confronted with losing the distinction between free and slave, rebel Southerners created a common whiteness to solve their post-Civil War-era problems, argues Hale (history, Univ. of Virginia). They built a nationalism of denial, a world of white and black, of power and fear. In literature, the marketplace, and public spectacle, they crafted a collectivity based on segregation as a culture, making whiteness a racial ident...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
