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Description edit
Making Whiteness is a profoundly important work that explains how and why whiteness came to be such a crucial, embattled--and distorting--component of twentieth-century American identity. In intricately textured detail and with passionately mastered analysis, Grace Elizabeth Hale shows how,... read more
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- Lillian Smith: Add a description of this character.
- Margaret Mitchell
- Joel Chandler Harris
- Katharine Lumpkin
- Jemima
- Neal
- Phillips
- Jim Crow
- Felton
- Tara
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- Mammy
- William Faulkner
- Booker T. Washington
- Kester
- James Weldon Johnson
- Hose
- Harper
- Robert E. Lee
- Walter White
- Garvey
- Stanton
- Ida B. Wells
- Scarlett
- Tom
- Snelling
- Borglum
- Wolcott
- Allen Tate
- Thomas Dixon
- Pollard
- Leo Frank
- Cooper
- Lena
- Frederick Douglass
- Newman
- Melanie
- Thomas Nelson Page
- Baker
- Larsen
- Kearney
Setting & Locations edit
- Georgia
- Atlanta
- America
- Waco
- Africa
- Rutherford
- North Carolina
- New York
- Mississippi
- China
- Florida
- Richmond
- Alabama
- Greensboro
- Texas
- Memphis
- Tennessee
- Paris
- Stone Mountain
- United States
- Newnan
- Glasgow
- Harlem
- Louisiana
- Virginia
- New South
- Mrs. Cranford
- Chicago
- Go Down
- Reconstruction
- Athens
- Old South
- Baltimore
First Sentence edit
HOW CAN WE NARRATE the founding moment of emancipation, the achievement at long last by four million people of the ownership of their own mid-nineteenth-century selves?
Authors & Contributors edit
- Grace Elizabeth Hale (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 973
Subjects edit
- Books › History › Americas › United States › African Americans › History
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Sociology › Race Relations › America
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Anthropology › Cultural
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Special Groups › Ethnic Studies
- Books › History › Americas › United States › 20th Century
- Books › History › Americas › United States › State & Local
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Special Groups › African-American Studies
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Discrimination & Racism
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