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Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness; The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America, 1880–1940

Brad Evans

American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 859–861.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-058

Published: 01 December 2009

...Brad Evans © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness . By Matt Wray. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2006. 213 pp. Paper, $21.95. The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America, 1880–1940 . By Julian B...

View articletitled, Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness; The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America, 1880–1940

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White Women Writing White: H.D., Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, and Whiteness; The Color of Sex: Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy; White Diaspora: The Suburb and the Twentieth-Century American Novel

Diane McKay

American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 207–209.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-1-207

Published: 01 March 2003

... the specialist and nonspecialist, it will undoubtedly shape future criticism in the ﬁeld. Elisabeth Brown, University of Southern California White Women Writing White: H.D., Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath...

View articletitled, White Women Writing White: H.D., Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, and Whiteness; The Color of Sex: Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy; White Diaspora: The Suburb and the Twentieth-Century American Novel

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Immunity’s Racial Empire: Virality, Melancholy, Whiteness

Travis Alexander

American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 513–541.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8616175

Published: 01 September 2020

...’” that can “negate” that self). A medical textbook from 1982, for instance, lauds the immune system for keeping at bay such losses of individuality, such fearful “fusions,” as occur naturally in the “jungle” (Klein 1982 : 3). It is thus more precisely whiteness—white exceptionalism—that animates...

View articletitled, Immunity’s Racial Empire: Virality, Melancholy, Whiteness

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The Whiteness of the White

John Marsh

American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 563–572.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10084568

Published: 01 September 2022

...John Marsh [email protected] Poverty Politics: Poor Whites in Contemporary Southern Writing . By Sarah Robertson . Oxford : Univ. of Mississippi Press . 2019 . xxii, 188 pp. Cloth, $99.00 ; paper, $30.00 ; e-book available. Peculiar Whiteness: Racial Anxiety and Poor Whites...

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Realism’s Reputations, Financialized Whiteness

Monica Huerta

American Literature (2024) 96 (3): 381–410.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11398663

Published: 01 September 2024

...Monica Huerta Abstract This essay uses the legal rearticulation of reputation as white heteropatriarchal property in an “Imperial Jim Crow” United States to piece apart the preoccupation with characters’ reputations in realist fiction. It focuses on two later-nineteenth-century arenas of what...

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Whiteness on the Border: Mapping the U.S. Racial Imagination in Brown and White The Poetry of the Americas: From Good Neighbors to Countercultures Anxieties of Experience: The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolaño

Antonio Barrenechea

American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 169–171.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8056665

Published: 01 March 2020

... of unity. Lee Bebout’s Whiteness on the Border recalls Daniel Cooper Alarcón’s seminal book The Aztec Palimpsest (1997). The author puts whiteness studies into conversation with border and ethnic studies, but his basic claim will surprise no one: “representations of Mexico, Mexicans, and Mexican...

View articletitled, Whiteness on the Border: Mapping the U.S. Racial Imagination in Brown and White The Poetry of the Americas: From Good Neighbors to Countercultures Anxieties of Experience: The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolaño

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Spain's Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American Empire; The Twentieth-Century Spanish American Novel

Marissa López

American Literature (2007) 79 (2): 430–432.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-014

Published: 01 June 2007

...Marissa López Duke University Press 2007 Spain's Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American Empire . By María DeGuzmán. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2005. xxxiii, 372 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $25.00. The Twentieth-Century Spanish American...

View articletitled, Spain's Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American Empire; The Twentieth-Century Spanish American Novel

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Place, Language, and Identity in Afro-Costa Rican Literature; The Fugitive Race: Minority Writers Resisting Whiteness

Tim Engles

American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 185–187.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-1-185

Published: 01 March 2004

... only how the pathos-ridden slave body was used to invite sympathy. McBride’sentirevolumeconcernstheﬁnelinethatabolitionists,both black and white, negotiated in struggling for their cause. They dealt with the ‘‘impossibility’’ of slave testimony and the limits of representation within the norms...

View articletitled, Place, Language, and Identity in Afro-Costa Rican Literature; The Fugitive Race: Minority Writers Resisting Whiteness

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Playing in the White: Black Writers, White Subjects Black Africans in the British Imagination: English Narratives of the Early Atlantic World Borrowed Voices: Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy

Stephen Knadler

American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 213–216.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7335633

Published: 01 March 2019

...Stephen Knadler Playing in the White: Black Writers, White Subjects . By Stephanie Li . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2015 . 299 pp. Cloth, $73.00 ; e-book available. Black Africans in the British Imagination: English Narratives of the Early Atlantic World . By Cassander...

View articletitled, Playing in the White: Black Writers, White Subjects Black Africans in the British Imagination: English Narratives of the Early Atlantic World Borrowed Voices: Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy

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The Thin White Line: Veterans and the White Racial Politics of Creative Writing

Joseph Darda

American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 783–810.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7917308

Published: 01 December 2019

...Joseph Darda Abstract This essay considers how the creative writing workshop transformed the white Vietnam vet into a minority writer. The MFA system, which organized the group-based politics of post–civil rights American literature, originated as a space geared toward white combat veterans. Some...

View articletitled, The Thin White Line: Veterans and the White Racial Politics of Creative Writing

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The Civil War Dead and American Modernity Battle Lines: Poetry and Mass Media in the U.S. Civil War I Remain Yours: Common Lives in Civil War Letters The Literature of Reconstruction: Not in Plain Black and White

Timothy Sweet

American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 594–598.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8616247

Published: 01 September 2020

... of self-reliance that did not apply to the white business community” (206), Thomas observes that “freedmen never got their forty acres and a mule, but railroads got huge stretches of governmental land—and more” partly on the rationale that expansion would enable the material reconstruction of the South...

View articletitled, The Civil War Dead and American Modernity Battle Lines: Poetry and Mass Media in the U.S. Civil War I Remain Yours: Common Lives in Civil War Letters The Literature of Reconstruction: Not in Plain Black and White

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Black Mirror: The Cultural Contradictions of American Racism Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs Racial Worldmaking: The Power of Popular Fiction

Travis M. Foster

American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 812–814.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8781043

Published: 01 December 2020

...Travis M. Foster Black Mirror: The Cultural Contradictions of American Racism . By Eric Lott . Cambridge, MA : Harvard Univ. Press . 2017 . xxv, 262 pp. Cloth, $31.00 . Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs . By David Ikard . Chicago : Univ. of Chicago...

View articletitled, Black Mirror: The Cultural Contradictions of American Racism Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs Racial Worldmaking: The Power of Popular Fiction

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The Unacknowledged War: Dunbar’s History of White Revisionism

T. Austin Graham

American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 59–85.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8878518

Published: 01 March 2021

...T. Austin Graham Abstract “The Unacknowledged War” is an inquiry into the phenomenon of Civil War revisionism, focusing on the tendency of white Americans to deny, against all available evidence, that the “war between the states” was waged over slavery. In doing so, the essay turns to Paul Laurence...

View articletitled, The Unacknowledged War: Dunbar’s History of White Revisionism

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Tombstone, Deadwood, and Dodge City: Re-creating the Frontier West Fictions of Western American Domesticity: Indian, Mexican, and Anglo Women in Print Culture, 1850–1950 Failed Frontiersmen: White Men and Myth in the Post-Sixties American Historical Romance

Janet Dean

American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 533–536.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9361349

Published: 01 September 2021

... Domesticity: Indian, Mexican, and Anglo Women in Print Culture, 1850–1950 . By Amanda J. Zink , Albuquerque : Univ. of New Mexico Press . 2018 . xiii, 339 pp. Cloth, $75.00 ; e-book, $75.00 . Failed Frontiersmen: White Men and Myth in the Post-Sixties American Historical Romance...

View articletitled, Tombstone, Deadwood, and Dodge City: Re-creating the Frontier West Fictions of Western American Domesticity: Indian, Mexican, and Anglo Women in Print Culture, 1850–1950 Failed Frontiersmen: White Men and Myth in the Post-Sixties American Historical Romance

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White Writers, Race Matters: Fictions of Racial Liberalism from Stowe to Stockett Black Prometheus: Race and Radicalism in the Age of Atlantic Slavery

Chris Taylor

American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 528–531.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9361321

Published: 01 September 2021

...Chris Taylor [email protected] White Writers, Race Matters: Fictions of Racial Liberalism from Stowe to Stockett . By Gregory S. Jay , New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2017 . xi, 370 pp. Cloth, $73.00 ; e-book available. Black Prometheus: Race and Radicalism...

View articletitled, White Writers, Race Matters: Fictions of Racial Liberalism from Stowe to Stockett Black Prometheus: Race and Radicalism in the Age of Atlantic Slavery

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Tarzan's White Flights: Terrorism and Fantasy before and after the Airplane

Aaron Bady

American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 305–329.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1266072

Published: 01 June 2011

...Aaron Bady By placing the Tarzan novels and films in the historical context of the development of aviation and aerial bombardment, Bady traces how changing fantasies of flight mediate the Tarzan franchise's changing relationship to white supremacist violence. Edgar Rice Burroughs's original novels...

View articletitled, Tarzan's White Flights: Terrorism and Fantasy before and after the Airplane

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Entitled to the Pedestal: Place, Race, and Progress in White Southern Women's Writing, 1920–1945; Wounds of Returning: Race, Memory, and Prosperity on the Postslavery Plantation

Katie McKee

American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 454–456.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1266153

Published: 01 June 2011

...Katie McKee Entitled to the Pedestal: Place, Race, and Progress in White Southern Women's Writing, 1920–1945 . By Nghana Tamu Lewis. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2007. xiv, 208 pp. $37.95. Wounds of Returning: Race, Memory, and Prosperity on the Postslavery Plantation . By Jessica Adams...

View articletitled, Entitled to the Pedestal: Place, Race, and Progress in White Southern Women's Writing, 1920–1945; Wounds of Returning: Race, Memory, and Prosperity on the Postslavery Plantation

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Rest Cure versus Rest Tour: The Queer Routes of White Women’s Health

Samaine Lockwood

American Literature (2025) 97 (1): 93–120.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11597526

Published: 01 March 2025

...Samaine Lockwood Abstract This article explores how queer feminisms of the first wave relied on white supremacism and US exceptionalism to contest medical discourses about neurasthenia and sexual inversion. In particular, the author analyzes theories of women’s health, physical mobility...

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A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis

Stefanie K. Dunning

American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 654–656.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-6994943

Published: 01 September 2018

... A Taste for Brown Bodies and Not Straight, Not White differ in genre, discipline, and intent, both do the work of bringing to light that which is often overlooked. Kevin J. Mumford’s book Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis is quite different...

View articletitled, A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis

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Imitation Nation: Red, White, and Blackface in Early and Antebellum US Literature Stranger America: A Narrative Ethics of Exclusion

Sam B. Girgus

American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 153–155.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8056623

Published: 01 March 2020

...Sam B. Girgus Imitation Nation: Red, White, and Blackface in Early and Antebellum US Literature . By Jason Richards . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2017 . xi, 244 pp. Cloth, $45.00 ; e-book, $45.00 . Stranger America: A Narrative Ethics of Exclusion...

View articletitled, Imitation Nation: Red, White, and Blackface in Early and Antebellum US Literature Stranger America: A Narrative Ethics of Exclusion

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Search Results for whiteness

Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness; The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America, 1880–1940

White Women Writing White: H.D., Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, and Whiteness; The Color of Sex: Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy; White Diaspora: The Suburb and the Twentieth-Century American Novel

Immunity’s Racial Empire: Virality, Melancholy, Whiteness

The Whiteness of the White

Realism’s Reputations, Financialized Whiteness

Whiteness on the Border: Mapping the U.S. Racial Imagination in Brown and White The Poetry of the Americas: From Good Neighbors to Countercultures Anxieties of Experience: The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolaño

Spain's Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American Empire; The Twentieth-Century Spanish American Novel

Place, Language, and Identity in Afro-Costa Rican Literature; The Fugitive Race: Minority Writers Resisting Whiteness

Playing in the White: Black Writers, White Subjects Black Africans in the British Imagination: English Narratives of the Early Atlantic World Borrowed Voices: Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy

The Thin White Line: Veterans and the White Racial Politics of Creative Writing

The Civil War Dead and American Modernity Battle Lines: Poetry and Mass Media in the U.S. Civil War I Remain Yours: Common Lives in Civil War Letters The Literature of Reconstruction: Not in Plain Black and White

Black Mirror: The Cultural Contradictions of American Racism Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs Racial Worldmaking: The Power of Popular Fiction

The Unacknowledged War: Dunbar’s History of White Revisionism

Tombstone, Deadwood, and Dodge City: Re-creating the Frontier West Fictions of Western American Domesticity: Indian, Mexican, and Anglo Women in Print Culture, 1850–1950 Failed Frontiersmen: White Men and Myth in the Post-Sixties American Historical Romance

White Writers, Race Matters: Fictions of Racial Liberalism from Stowe to Stockett Black Prometheus: Race and Radicalism in the Age of Atlantic Slavery

Tarzan's White Flights: Terrorism and Fantasy before and after the Airplane

Entitled to the Pedestal: Place, Race, and Progress in White Southern Women's Writing, 1920–1945; Wounds of Returning: Race, Memory, and Prosperity on the Postslavery Plantation

Rest Cure versus Rest Tour: The Queer Routes of White Women’s Health

A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis

Imitation Nation: Red, White, and Blackface in Early and Antebellum US Literature Stranger America: A Narrative Ethics of Exclusion

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