Description 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.
She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia..
About the Author Grace Elizabeth Hale is an assistant professor of American history at the University of Virginia.
Her vision holds out the difficult promise of a truly democratic American identity whose possibilities are no longer limited and disfigured by race.
By showing the very recent historical "making" of contemporary American whiteness and by examining how the Culture of segregation, in all its murderous contradictions, was lived, Hale makes it possible to imagine a future outside it.
And in a bold and transformative analysis of the meaning of Segregation for the nation as a whole, she explains how white southerners\' creation of modern "whiteness" was, beginning in the 1920s, taken up by the rest of the nation as a way of enforcing a new social hierarchy while at the same time creating the illusion of a national, egalitarian, consumerist democracy.
In intricately textured detail and with passionately mastered analysis, Grace Elizabeth Hale shows how, when faced with the active citizenship of their ex-slaves after the Civil War, white southerners re-established their dominance through a cultural system based on violence and physical separation.
Description 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
