{"product_id":"making-whiteness-the-culture-of-segregation-in-the-south-1890-1940","title":"Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eMaking Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eGrace Elizabeth Hale\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780679776208\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eVintage\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1999\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e448\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaking Whiteness\u003c\/b\u003e 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, 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. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy 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. Her vision holds out the difficult promise of a truly democratic American identity whose possibilities are no longer limited and disfigured by race.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940 | Grace Elizabeth Hale | Paperback | 9780679776208 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks B 1737919","offer_id":48168652734616,"sku":"1737919","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/61kD0UejHuL.jpg?v=1771973216","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/making-whiteness-the-culture-of-segregation-in-the-south-1890-1940","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}