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White Diaspora

Author : Catherine Jurca
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400824133
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book White Diaspora written by Catherine Jurca and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-28 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to analyze our suburban literary tradition. Tracing the suburb's emergence as a crucial setting and subject of the twentieth-century American novel, Catherine Jurca identifies a decidedly masculine obsession with the suburban home and a preoccupation with its alternative--the experience of spiritual and emotional dislocation that she terms "homelessness." In the process, she challenges representations of white suburbia as prostrated by its own privileges. In novels as disparate as Tarzan (written by Tarzana, California, real-estate developer Edgar Rice Burroughs), Richard Wright's Native Son, and recent fiction by John Updike and Richard Ford, Jurca finds an emphasis on the suburb under siege, a place where the fortunate tend to see themselves as powerless. From Babbitt to Rabbit, the suburban novel casts property owners living in communities of their choosing as dispossessed people. Material advantages become artifacts of oppression, and affluence is fraudulently identified as impoverishment. The fantasy of victimization reimagines white flight as a white diaspora. Extending innovative trends in the study of nineteenth-century American culture, Jurca's analysis suggests that self-pity has played a constitutive role in white middle-class identity in the twentieth century. It breaks new ground in literary history and cultural studies, while telling the story of one of our most revered and reviled locations: "the little suburban house at number one million and ten Volstead Avenue" that Edith Wharton warned would ruin American life and letters.

The Southern Diaspora

Author : James Noble Gregory
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Southern Diaspora written by James Noble Gregory and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America

Between Arab and White

Author : Sarah Gualtieri
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520255348
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Between Arab and White written by Sarah Gualtieri and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-05-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Direct and accessible. A tour de force of research that demonstrates seemingly unlikely origins, evolutions, and contradictions of social identities."—George Lipsitz, author of Footsteps in the Dark and American Studies in a Moment of Danger

White Diaspora

Author : Catherine Jurca
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691057354
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book White Diaspora written by Catherine Jurca and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2001-03-04 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In novels as disparate as Tarzan (written by Tarzana, California, real-estate developer Edgar Rice Burroughs), Richard Wright's Native Son, and recent fiction by John Updike and Richard Ford, Jurca finds an emphasis on the suburb under siege, a place where the fortunate tend to see themselves as powerless. From Babbitt to Rabbit, the suburban novel casts property owners living in communities of their choosing as dispossessed people. Material advantages become artifacts of oppression, and affluence is fraudulently identified as impoverishment. The fantasy of victimization reimagines white flight as a white diaspora.

Blinded by the Whites

Author : David H. Ikard
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253011035
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Blinded by the Whites written by David H. Ikard and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The election of Barack Obama gave political currency to the (white) idea that Americans now live in a post-racial society. But the persistence of racial profiling, economic inequality between blacks and whites, disproportionate numbers of black prisoners, and disparities in health and access to healthcare suggest there is more to the story. David H. Ikard addresses these issues in an effort to give voice to the challenges faced by most African Americans and to make legible the shifting discourse of white supremacist ideology—including post-racialism and colorblind politics—that frustrates black self-determination, agency, and empowerment in the 21st century. Ikard tackles these concerns from various perspectives, chief among them black feminism. He argues that all oppressions (of race, gender, class, sexual orientation) intersect and must be confronted to upset the status quo.

Nordic Whiteness and Migration to the USA

Author : Jana Sverdljuk
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000164918
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Nordic Whiteness and Migration to the USA written by Jana Sverdljuk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the complex and contradictory ways in which the cultural, scientific and political myth of whiteness has influenced identities, self-perceptions and the process of integration of Nordic immigrants into multicultural and racially segregated American society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In deploying central insights from whiteness studies, postcolonial feminist and intersectionality theories, it shows that Nordic immigrants - Danes, Swedes, Finns, Norwegians and Sámi - contributed to and challenged American racism and white identity. A diverse group of immigrants, they could proclaim themselves ‘hyper-white’ and ‘better citizens than anybody else’, including Anglo-Saxons, thus taking for granted the racial bias of American citizenship and ownership rights, yet there were also various, unexpected intersections of whiteness with ethnicity, regional belonging, gender, sexuality, and political views. ‘Nordic whiteness’, then, was not a monolithic notion in the USA and could be challenged by other identities, which could even turn white Nordic immigrants into marginalised figures. A fascinating study of whiteness and identity among white migrants in the USA, Nordic Whiteness will appeal to scholars of sociology, history and anthropology with interests in Scandinavian studies, migration and diaspora studies and American studies.

Imperial White

Author : Radhika Mohanram
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452913358
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Imperial White written by Radhika Mohanram and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radhika Mohanram shows not just how British imperial culture shaped the colonies, but how the imperial rule of colonies shifted—and gave new meanings to—what it meant to be British. Imperial White looks at literary, social, and cultural texts on the racialization of the British body and investigates British whiteness in the colonies to address such questions as: How was the whiteness in Britishness constructed by the presence of Empire? How was whiteness incorporated into the idea of masculinity? Does heterosexuality have a color? And does domestic race differ from colonial race? In addition to these inquiries on the issues of race, class, and sexuality, Mohanram effectively applies the methods of whiteness studies to British imperial material culture to critically racialize the relationship between the metropole and the peripheral colonies. Considering whether whiteness, like theory, can travel, Mohanram also provides a new perspective on white diaspora, a phenomenon of the nineteenth century that has been largely absent in diaspora studies, ultimately rereading—and rethinking—British imperial whiteness. Radhika Mohanram teaches postcolonial cultural studies in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University, Wales. She is the author of Black Body: Women, Colonialism, Space (Minnesota, 1999) and edits the journal Social Semiotics.

When I Was White

Author : Sarah Valentine
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250146763
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book When I Was White written by Sarah Valentine and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stunning and provocative coming-of-age memoir about Sarah Valentine's childhood as a white girl in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, and her discovery that her father was a black man. At the age of 27, Sarah Valentine discovered that she was not, in fact, the white girl she had always believed herself to be. She learned the truth of her paternity: that her father was a black man. And she learned the truth about her own identity: mixed race. And so Sarah began the difficult and absorbing journey of changing her identity from white to black. In this memoir, Sarah details the story of the discovery of her identity, how she overcame depression to come to terms with this identity, and, perhaps most importantly, asks: why? Her entire family and community had conspired to maintain her white identity. The supreme discomfort her white family and community felt about addressing issues of race–her race–is a microcosm of race relationships in America. A black woman who lived her formative years identifying as white, Sarah's story is a kind of Rachel Dolezal in reverse, though her "passing" was less intentional than conspiracy. This memoir is an examination of the cost of being black in America, and how one woman threw off the racial identity she'd grown up with, in order to embrace a new one.

Blackness in the White Nation

Author : George Reid Andrews
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807834173
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Blackness in the White Nation written by George Reid Andrews and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uruguay is not conventionally thought of as part of the African diaspora, yet during the period of Spanish colonial rule, thousands of enslaved Africans arrived in the country. Afro-Uruguayans played important roles in Uruguay's national life, creating th

Voices of the Enslaved

Author : Sophie White
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469654059
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Voices of the Enslaved written by Sophie White and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men--like the testimony of free colonists--was meticulously recorded and preserved. Questioned in criminal trials as defendants, victims, and witnesses about attacks, murders, robberies, and escapes, they answered with stories about themselves, stories that rebutted the premise on which slavery was founded. Focusing on four especially dramatic court cases, Voices of the Enslaved draws us into Louisiana's courtrooms, prisons, courtyards, plantations, bayous, and convents to understand how the enslaved viewed and experienced their worlds. As they testified, these individuals charted their movement between West African, indigenous, and colonial cultures; they pronounced their moral and religious values; and they registered their responses to labor, to violence, and, above all, to the intimate romantic and familial bonds they sought to create and protect. Their words--punctuated by the cadences of Creole and rich with metaphor--produced riveting autobiographical narratives as they veered from the questions posed by interrogators. Carefully assessing what we can discover, what we might guess, and what has been lost forever, Sophie White offers both a richly textured account of slavery in French Louisiana and a powerful meditation on the limits and possibilities of the archive.

Nagô Grandma and White Papa

Author : Beatriz Góis Dantas
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807831778
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Nagô Grandma and White Papa written by Beatriz Góis Dantas and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nago Grandma and White Papa is a signal work in Brazilian anthropology and African diaspora studies originally published in Brazil in 1988. This edition makes Beatriz Gois Dantas's historioethnographic study available to an English-speaking audienc

The Southern Diaspora

Author : James N. Gregory
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807876852
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Southern Diaspora written by James N. Gregory and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2006-05-18 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1900 and the 1970s, twenty million southerners migrated north and west. Weaving together for the first time the histories of these black and white migrants, James Gregory traces their paths and experiences in a comprehensive new study that demonstrates how this regional diaspora reshaped America by "southernizing" communities and transforming important cultural and political institutions. Challenging the image of the migrants as helpless and poor, Gregory shows how both black and white southerners used their new surroundings to become agents of change. Combining personal stories with cultural, political, and demographic analysis, he argues that the migrants helped create both the modern civil rights movement and modern conservatism. They spurred changes in American religion, notably modern evangelical Protestantism, and in popular culture, including the development of blues, jazz, and country music. In a sweeping account that pioneers new understandings of the impact of mass migrations, Gregory recasts the history of twentieth-century America. He demonstrates that the southern diaspora was crucial to transformations in the relationship between American regions, in the politics of race and class, and in the roles of religion, the media, and culture.

Black Women in White

Author : Darlene Clark Hine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Black Women in White written by Darlene Clark Hine and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pathbreaking study analyzes the impact of racism on the development of the nursing profession, particularly on black women in the profession.

Between Arab and White

Author : Sarah Gualtieri
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520943465
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Between Arab and White written by Sarah Gualtieri and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-05-06 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multifaceted study of Syrian immigration to the United States places Syrians— and Arabs more generally—at the center of discussions about race and racial formation from which they have long been marginalized. Between Arab and White focuses on the first wave of Arab immigration and settlement in the United States in the years before World War II, but also continues the story up to the present. It presents an original analysis of the ways in which people mainly from current day Lebanon and Syria—the largest group of Arabic-speaking immigrants before World War II—came to view themselves in racial terms and position themselves within racial hierarchies as part of a broader process of ethnic identity formation.

Becoming Black

Author : Michelle M. Wright
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822332886
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Black written by Michelle M. Wright and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA theoretical troubling of the assumptions of uniformity in Blackness, comparing writings by and about African diasporic subjects from the U.S., Britain, France, and Germany./div

White Innocence

Author : Gloria Wekker
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822374560
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book White Innocence written by Gloria Wekker and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In White Innocence Gloria Wekker explores a central paradox of Dutch culture: the passionate denial of racial discrimination and colonial violence coexisting alongside aggressive racism and xenophobia. Accessing a cultural archive built over 400 years of Dutch colonial rule, Wekker fundamentally challenges Dutch racial exceptionalism by undermining the dominant narrative of the Netherlands as a "gentle" and "ethical" nation. Wekker analyzes the Dutch media's portrayal of black women and men, the failure to grasp race in the Dutch academy, contemporary conservative politics (including gay politicians espousing anti-immigrant rhetoric), and the controversy surrounding the folkloric character Black Pete, showing how the denial of racism and the expression of innocence safeguards white privilege. Wekker uncovers the postcolonial legacy of race and its role in shaping the white Dutch self, presenting the contested, persistent legacy of racism in the country.

Modernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora

Author : Elisa Joy White
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253001153
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Modernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora written by Elisa Joy White and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elisa Joy White investigates the contemporary African Diaspora communities in Dublin, New Orleans, and Paris and their role in the interrogation of modernity and social progress. Beginning with an examination of Dublin's emergent African immigrant community, White shows how the community's negotiation of racism, immigration status, and xenophobia exemplifies the ways in which idealist representations of global societies are contradicted by the prevalence of racial, ethnic, and cultural conflicts within them. Through the consideration of three contemporaneous events--the deportations of Nigerians from Dublin, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, and the uprisings in the Paris suburbs--White reveals a shared quest for social progress in the face of stark retrogressive conditions.