In Whiteness Visible, Valerie Babb investigates the history,
values, rituals, and shared consciousness that created whiteness in
the United States, as well as the representations that sustain its
influence on both cultural and literary vision. Babb formulates an
understanding of whiteness by tracing its literary and cultural
evolution, enlisting diverse sources from, among others, the Han
dynasty, Aristotle's "Politica," and excerpts from the
recollections of white indentured servants.
Babb's textual analysis begins by surveying the construction of
whiteness in early American writings and material culture, and
continues through literature of the nineteenth century, surveying
whiteness in texts commonly acknowledged as standards in U.S.
literature--"The Last of the Mohicans" and "Moby Dick." She then
investigates representations of whiteness in a variety of late-
nineteenth and early-twentieth century cultural creations, among
them immigrant autobiographies, World's Fair expositions, and
etiquette books. Babb convincingly illustrates the ways in which a
variety of cultural creations combine to help shape the concept of
universal whiteness.
Whiteness Visible boldly claims that we can only understand the
full significance of race and the ways in which it influences
cultural understanding and cultural creation in the United States
when we interrogate whiteness and make it visible.
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