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White Folks - Race and Identity in Rural America (Paperback)
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White Folks - Race and Identity in Rural America (Paperback)
Series: Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives
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White Folks explores the experiences and stories of eight white
people from a small farming community in northern Wisconsin. It
examines how white people learn to be 'white' and reveals how white
racial identity is dependent on people of color-even in situations
where white people have little or no contact with racial others.
Drawing on in-depth interviews with Delores, Frank, William, Erin,
Robert, Libby, and Stan, as well as on his own experiences growing
up in this same rural community, Lensmire creates a portrait of
white people that highlights how their relations to people of color
and their cultures are seldom simple and are characterized not just
by fear and rejection, but also by attraction, envy, and desire.
White Folks helps readers recognize the profound ambivalence that
has characterized white thinking and feeling in relation to people
of color for at least the last two hundred years. There is nothing
smooth about the souls of white folks. Current antiracist work is
often grounded in a white privilege framework that has proven
ineffective - in part because it reduces white people to little
more than the embodiment of privilege. Lensmire provides an
alternative that confronts the violence at the core of white racial
selves that has become increasingly visible in American society and
politics, but that also illuminates conflicts and complexities
there.
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