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Offers close textual readings of plays by American and British 20th century playwrights--both canonical and some that fall outside the mainstream--looking at how whiteness as an identity is created onstage, and how this has changed historically. Includes discussions of G.B. Shaw's Captain Brassbound's Conversion, W. Somerset Maugham's The Explorer, W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood's The Ascent of F6, Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape, Langston Hughes'...
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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...
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"Stephen P. Knadler adds to the discussion of the "white question" by contending that the white race has been a fugitive one that ignores the need for dialogue with minorities. The Fugitive Race: Minority Writers Resisting Whiteness investigates the creation and perpetration of whiteness, highlighting both the race's exclusion of people of color and minority writers' resistance to this privileged racial category." "From the antebellum period to the...
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"What does it mean to be white? When and why did European men buy the idea that they were "whites," and who sold it to them? The secret history of whiteness is told, for the first time, in this important book by an internationally-acclaimed cultural historian and journalist. Gary Taylor tracks the growth of modern white identity through the history of art, law, literature, science, and sexuality - and through the eyes of black and brown observers....
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