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The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself - Racial Myths and Our American Narratives (Paperback)
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The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself - Racial Myths and Our American Narratives (Paperback)
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Uncovering the pernicious narratives white people create to justify
white supremacy and sustain racist oppression The police murders of
two Black men, Philando Castile and George Floyd, frame this
searing exploration of the historical and fictional narratives that
white America tells itself to justify and maintain white supremacy.
From the country's founding through the summer of Black Lives
Matter in 2020, David Mura unmasks how white stories about race
attempt to erase the brutality of the past and underpin systemic
racism in the present. Intertwining history, literature, ethics,
and the deeply personal, Mura looks back to foundational narratives
of white supremacy (Jefferson's defense of slavery, Lincoln's
frequently minimized racism, and the establishment of Jim Crow) to
show how white identity is based on shared belief in the pernicious
myths, false histories, and racially segregated fictions that allow
whites to deny their culpability in past atrocities and current
inequities. White supremacy always insists white knowledge is
superior to Black knowledge, Mura argues, and this belief dismisses
the truths embodied in Black narratives. Mura turns to literature,
comparing the white savior portrayal of the film Amistad to the
novelization of its script by the Black novelist Alexs Pate, which
focuses on its African protagonists; depictions of slavery in
Faulkner and Morrison; and race's absence in the fiction of
Jonathan Franzen and its inescapable presence in works by ZZ
Packer, tracing the construction of Whiteness to willfully
distorted portraits of race in America. In James Baldwin's essays,
Mura finds a response to this racial distortion and a way for
Blacks and other BIPOC people to heal from the wounds of racism.
Taking readers beyond apology, contrition, or sadness, Mura attends
to the persistent trauma racism has exacted and lays bare how
deeply we need to change our racial narratives-what white people
must do-to dissolve the myth of Whiteness and fully acknowledge the
stories and experiences of Black Americans.
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