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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 Paperback - 1999

by Grace Elizabeth Hale


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Grace Elizabeth Hale is an assistant professor of American history at the University of Virginia.  She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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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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In this brilliant and indispensable study of the making of segregationist culture, Grace Elizabeth Hale shows how what W. E. B. Du Bois called the "color line" came to define American identity itself: whiteness became the standard, desirable image of aspiring middle-class life while blackness was consigned to the margins, to the back of the bus, and became a marker, for a white majority, of social pathology. Nowhere was the identification of blackness with inferiority more obsessively enforced than in the South, where the law cast a blind eye on lynching as public entertainment and where white children were taught that Negroes "must be kept in their place."

Drawing on a fascinating and often disturbing array of cultural artifacts and events, Making Whiteness shatters the habitual assumption that racism is an unfortunate fact of human nature, and points the way toward a truly egalitarian and integrated society.

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  • Title Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940
  • Author Grace Elizabeth Hale
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 448
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage, US
  • Date June 1, 1999
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780679776208 / 0679776206
  • Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.23 x 0.92 in (20.32 x 13.28 x 2.34 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1949
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects Southern States - Race relations, Southern States - Social conditions -
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.8

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Grace Elizabeth Hale is an assistant professor of American history at the University of Virginia. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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