Making Whiteness
The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
15 July 1999
Summary
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. An…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679776208 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0679776206 |
| Author: | Grace Elizabeth Hale |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 15 July 1999 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 131mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Vintage |
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“A delightfully provocative book – the most nuanced picture yet of the world view of segregationists.” – Austin Chronicle
About The Author
Grace Elizabeth Hale
Grace Elizabeth Hale is an assistant professor of American history at the University of Virginia. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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