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American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 207–209.
Published: 01 March 2003
..., and Whiteness.
By Renée R. Curry. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 2000. xii, 184 pp. $62.50.
6815 AMERICAN LITERATURE / 75:1 / sheet 211 of 252 The Color of Sex: Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy.
By Mason Stokes. Durham...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 381–406.
Published: 01 June 2008
... in an Age of Benevolent Supremacy
In his influential 1941 editorial “The American Cen-
tury,” Henry Luce, the publisher of Life and Time, placed a corps of
“engineers, scientists, doctors, movie men, makers of entertainment,
developers of airlines, builders of roads, teachers...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (3): 513–537.
Published: 01 September 2023
... the novel, whiteness becomes legible as an object of addiction that defends against the failed ideals of self-possessed human personhood—a cornerstone to white supremacy. The novel then reveals opportunities to reorganize the senses and ideas of personhood as a means to disrupt particularly harmful...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 61–87.
Published: 01 March 2012
... in order to conceal the regressive barbarisms of racist violence, a violence understood as the resilient legacy of convulsive, psychoaffective white supremacy; as a conspiratorial compromise between a reunited North and South; or as a response to the rise of an African American middle-class in the wake...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 153–179.
Published: 01 March 2009
... narrative forms. However, Doolen argues that Martin Delany uses the novel form to identify how the fictions of white supremacy established the terms and categories of U.S. historiography. Recognizing that white-authored histories helped maintain the institutions of slavery, Delany attempts to remove African...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 812–814.
Published: 01 December 2020
... to Joni Mitchell. The second half of Black Mirror ’s thesis leaves little room for the ideological dexterity through which white supremacy absorbs contradiction. Lott instead puts tremendous stock in white self-awareness as a form of resistance—or, at least, disruption—from within the very enactments...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 311–337.
Published: 01 June 2001
... white perception and
racial violence. Ultimately, I argue that racial violence in the South
can be understood as an attempt to repair the damaged epistemology
of white supremacy.3...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 563–572.
Published: 01 September 2022
.... Poor whites have rarely traded their racial identity for a class one, and they pose little to no threat to whiteness proper. If anything, they shore it up. To put it another way, white supremacy is doing just fine, thank you. Of course, there is another turn of this screw, which...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 123–149.
Published: 01 March 2020
... racial logics (2000: 28). In fact, for many people psychoanalysis makes possible the articulation of grievances with the various forms of damage exacted on bodies and psyches by white supremacy. While “one must proceed with caution” to avoid the naturalization of universal subjectivity implied...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 31–58.
Published: 01 March 2019
... to reinstitute antebellum conditions—equally pressed their cause in a language of progress, evolution, and scientific modernity. For many Americans of the time, especially in the South, the color of progress was white. Popular literature such as John H. Van Evrie’s White Supremacy and Negro Subordination...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 689–696.
Published: 01 December 2020
... was met with a murderous white supremacy. They happened then, when the widespread unemployment of the Great Depression devastated already precarious Black communities. They happened then, during the apex of HIV/AIDS and the height of the crack cocaine epidemic. They happen with each and every instance...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 553–584.
Published: 01 September 2018
... on the shifting relationship between black bodies and white supremacy suggested by these speculative steam men. Though present-day technoculture projects a rhetoric of color blindness, it is my assertion that in the United States our sociotechnical imaginaries are inseparable from the discourses of race...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 587–617.
Published: 01 September 2019
... specifically, though, this essay is about how time has operated as a historical weapon of antiblack violence and a charged arena of necropolitical maneuver. 1 Unfurling the historical significance of time to the organizing of a world firmly rooted in antiblackness and white supremacy, it contributes...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 769–797.
Published: 01 December 2008
... from global decolonization and the Cold War.
These events combined with the portrayal of World War II as a global
war against fascism to destabilize white supremacy as the normative
content of an international racial order undergoing rapid changes. A
powerful, global political-economic...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (2): 221–246.
Published: 01 June 2004
..., distinguish the emergent nation
from all others and work to justify slavery within it. Yet even as
the child featured in early national political rhetoric helped to orga-
nize national identity around the idea of white supremacy—even as
it helped to transform ‘‘we the people’’ into ‘‘we the white people...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 821–845.
Published: 01 December 2006
.... regions that were resistant to Northern abolition, such
American Literature, Volume 78, Number 4, December 2006
DOI 10.1215/00029831-2006-053 © 2006 by Duke University Press
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as the South, turned to Cuba to enact a program of insurgent white
supremacy; second, how Cuba’s...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 495–522.
Published: 01 September 2018
... Hortense J. 1987 . “ Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book .” diacritics 17 , no. 2 : 65 – 81 . Stokes Mason B. 2001 . The Color of Sex: Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . Tate Claudia . 1992...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 619–647.
Published: 01 September 2019
... significant irony, as his newfound fame only serves to advance the very necropolitics of black exceptionalism that his novels are invested in critiquing. Black exceptionalism is inherently necropolitical because it reinforces white supremacy by permitting tokenized black celebrities to rise to the limelight...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 229–238.
Published: 01 March 2010
... explores the fusion of romanti-
cism and outcome-based practicality that undergirded America’s age of inven-
tion and its eventual industrial supremacy. Placing a number of fictional works
in their social contexts, this book makes a contribution to both literary and
intellectual history...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (3): 447–457.
Published: 01 September 2023
... on Monique Truong’s representation of a transnational Vietnamese adoptee’s lexical-gustatory synesthesia in Bitter in the Mouth (2010), You considers how both white supremacy and its violent appetite for racial intimacies are sustained by a cultural addiction to sweetness. Synesthesia unsettles the racial...
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