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The Souls of White Folk - African American Writers Theorize Whiteness (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,150
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The Souls of White Folk - African American Writers Theorize Whiteness (Hardcover): Veronica T. Watson

The Souls of White Folk - African American Writers Theorize Whiteness (Hardcover)

Veronica T. Watson

Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

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"The Souls of White Folk: African American Writers Theorize Whiteness" is the first study to consider the substantial body of African American writing that critiques whiteness as social construction and racial identity. Arguing against the prevailing approach to these texts that says African American writers retreated from issues of "race" when they wrote about whiteness, Veronica T. Watson instead identifies this body of literature as an African American intellectual and literary tradition that she names "the literature of white estrangement."

In chapters that theorize white double consciousness (W. E. B. Du Bois and Charles Chesnutt), white womanhood and class identity (Zora Neale Hurston and Frank Yerby), and the socio-spatial subjectivity of southern whites during the civil rights era (Melba Patillo Beals), Watson explores the historically situated theories and analyses of whiteness provided by the literature of white estrangement from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries. She argues that these texts are best understood as part of a multipronged approach by African American writers to challenge and dismantle white supremacy in the United States and demonstrates that these texts have an important place in the growing field of critical whiteness studies.

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Imprint: University Press Of Mississippi
Country of origin: United States
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
Release date: August 2013
First published: August 2013
Authors: Veronica T. Watson
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 978-1-61703-889-1
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Literary reference works
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Equal opportunities
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LSN: 1-61703-889-X
Barcode: 9781617038891

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