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

Name: Making Whiteness The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940
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ISBN: 9780679776208

ISBN-10: 0679776206

ISBN-13: 9780679776208

Edition: 1999

Authors: 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. 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…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 5.51" wide x 7.99" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Grace Elizabeth Hale is Associate Professor of History and American Studies at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940.