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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 151–178.
Published: 01 June 2022
... learns to “think racially” and embrace the virtues of massive resistance to integration. The novel’s equation of psychological maturity and white supremacy is key to Jean Louise consistent denial of the centrality of anti-Black violence and oppression throughout the long history of Anglo-Saxon...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 343–368.
Published: 01 December 2019
... to histories of racial profiling and respectability politics, it analyzes how profile epistemology remains dependent on white supremacy, demonstrating how critical race theory, affect theory, and poetry can open up forms of oppositional looking to undermine the ostensible objectivity of data. Copyright ©...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (3): 293–316.
Published: 01 September 2021
... as a temporal problem. In doing this, Citizen demonstrates how the racial break represented less a rupture than a continuation—how the antagonisms of racialized citizenship under white supremacy are sublimated by racial liberal rule. Perhaps nothing in US history illustrates this shifting state of ambiguity...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (3): 352–357.
Published: 01 September 2021
... that absurdity and one real-life Black corporation surprisingly used the law to its advantage. In an engaging analysis of Schuyler’s Black No More (1931), Siraganian sets aside both the novel’s broad satire (which lampoons Black leaders as well as white supremacy) and its scathing commentary on the two major...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (3): 397–404.
Published: 01 September 2014
...,
according to Charles, these novels do not accord with our expectation
that when African American authors do write about whiteness, “their
central concern is to attack white supremacy” (15). In other words,
white-life novels have been marginalized because they do not appear
to be about either black...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (1): 125–129.
Published: 01 March 2009
... and Thomas Dixon’s The
Clansman as vehicles of a transregional white unity exemplifies vividly
how the nation imagined a national collectivity grounded in whiteness,
exclusion, and national segregation, with white non-Southerners partici
pating in white supremacy (via the South) while at the same...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (1): 79–98.
Published: 01 March 2014
... Lewis’s understanding of the white/black
opposition as rooted in “the societal power it supports” (8): “Lewis makes
clear that money and power are what is really at stake in the White
Supremacy racket” (14). Jennifer Delton has argued that the novel is less
about racial boundaries per se than...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (2): 269–278.
Published: 01 June 2009
... to the
fact that the foundational battle between master and slave, Covey and
Douglass, “policeman” and “nigger,” to use his phrasing (149), is a struggle
between men, often infused with an unacknowledged homoeroticism.
Ideological formations such as white supremacy and black nationalism
attempt...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 113–150.
Published: 01 June 2022
...” to refer to the mainstream discourse of American eugenic science, one that was deeply racist, terrified of miscegenation, and highly invested in racial purity. 3 Take, for example, Lothrop Stoddard’s The Rising Tide of Color Against White World Supremacy (1920), whose title might easily serve...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 510–546.
Published: 01 December 2009
... of anyone’s identification with white-
ness—even that of the people defending its exclusions.22 His project thus
becomes a more powerful challenge to white supremacy than Black-No-
More has ever been: it makes visible what Schuyler called the “Caucasian
problem” in place of the purported “Negro...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (3): 237–260.
Published: 01 September 2019
...” phenomenological method to ironize the constitutive terms of white supremacy in the United States. What’s more, the story interrogates existentialism itself, in effect asking, “What if the terms and meanings of an intersubjective milieu are articulated through hate, discrimination, and shame?” After all...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 307–342.
Published: 01 December 2019
... Not Remedy Racial Inequality .” In State of White Supremacy: Racism, Governance, and the United States , edited by Jung Moon-Kie Vargas João H. Costa Bonilla-Silva Eduardo , 77 – 90 . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . Brinson Curiel Barbara . 2013 . “ ‘Had They Been...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (2): 147–172.
Published: 01 June 2015
... a direction for activism, but his act has only symbolic meaning and no practical utility. It doesn’t itself undermine Sunraider or white supremacy, nor does it galvanize a political movement on its own. The spirit Minifees summons is the ideal “spirit” of American democracy, what the nation is “ supposed...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (2): 191–212.
Published: 01 June 2017
... offered, but every attempt he made to get in a Broadway show, or arrange for a radio or concert audition, had ended in failure” (1992, 104)—but this “failure” results not from Eustace’s lack of talent but from the culture of white supremacy. Like Stein, Eustace’s “discriminating” taste is an expression...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (3): 333–360.
Published: 01 September 2020
... faith in ‘technological progress’ as serving a similar social function to white supremacy—both ideologies distract Americans from the more purposeful goal of ‘personal moral responsibility’” (10). 11 In Three Days , Ellison’s most sustained critique of technological progress focuses on the rising...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (1): 60–89.
Published: 01 March 2012
...” complex-
ion (fig. 4), and a Fairy Soap ad notes that it “is as pure as its whiteness
suggests.” Such associations reflect, as Paul Mullins argues, an attempt to
“materialize White supremacy” (18) by way of consumer culture.16
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Spectacles of Consumer Culture and Race in Wharton’s Summer...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (2): 147–176.
Published: 01 June 2023
...” one’s whiteness, advocated by critical whiteness studies, generates pride among white subjects, a kind of leftist mirror image of white supremacy. As I discuss later, however, the cultivation of white happiness is by no means limited to contemporary antiracist style. To consider that antiracism in some...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (1): 61–91.
Published: 01 March 2006
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as the proper subject matter of the modern author. The narrator lives in
a world of idleness and feminine domesticity, of “braceleted white arms,”
“teacups,” and (presumably genteel) “novels” (5, 6); he imagines himself
more Polonius than Hamlet in this womanly realm, an “easy tool” impaled
by casual...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (2): 95–126.
Published: 01 June 2024
..., the fact that many observers felt that this was the case indicates that Southerners and Southern racial codes were conspicuous.” Still, given US Northern investment in empire and white supremacy, the perception of Southern dominance within the US empire also suggests that “Southern racial codes” were...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (3): 191–216.
Published: 01 September 2019
... of “improvement” took Euro-American assumptions of white supremacy “as a given” ( English 2004 : 145) and, although eugenics was an international phenomenon, the United States occupied its vanguard. It was American eugenicist Herbert Henry Goddard who coined the phrase “final solution” ( English 2004 : 10...
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