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Unwhite - Appalachia, Race, and Film (Hardcover)
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Unwhite - Appalachia, Race, and Film (Hardcover)
Series: The South on Screen Ser.
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Appalachia resides in the American imagination at the intersections
of race and class in a very particular way, in the tension between
deep historic investments in seeing the region as "pure white
stock" and as deeply impoverished and backward. Meredith
McCarroll's Unwhite analyzes the fraught location of Appalachians
within the southern and American imaginaries, building on studies
of race in literary and cinematic characterizations of the American
South. Not only do we know what "rednecks" and "white trash" are,
McCarroll argues, we rely on the continued use of such categories
in fashioning our broader sense of self and other. Further, we
continue to depend upon the existence of the region of Appalachia
as a cultural construct. As a consequence, Appalachia has long been
represented in the collective cultural history as the lowest, the
poorest, the most ignorant, and the most laughable community.
McCarroll complicates this understanding by asserting that white
privilege remains intact while Appalachia is othered through
reliance on recognizable nonwhite cinematic stereotypes. Unwhite
demonstrates how typical characterizations of Appalachian people
serve as foils to set off and define the "whiteness" of the
non-Appalachian southerners. In this dynamic, Appalachian
characters become the racial other. Analyzing the representation of
the people of Appalachia in films such as Deliverance, Cold
Mountain, Medium Cool, Norma Rae, Cape Fear, The Killing Season,
and Winter's Bone through the critical lens of race and
specifically whiteness, McCarroll offers a reshaping of the
understanding of the relationship between racial and regional
identities.
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