false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172210294m/150093.jpg 150093 2 <b>Making Whiteness</b> 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.<br><br>By 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. 144863 1998 Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940 total:30|5:7|4:16|3:6|2:1| 30 119 45 3 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri May 08 22:21:34 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 22:34:49 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Sun Apr 13 11:44:23 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 13 11:48:06 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Fri Feb 22 16:54:02 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 22 16:55:04 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Fri Sep 18 21:25:20 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 21:25:20 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Sep 09 11:33:06 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 11:33:08 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jul 18 21:38:04 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 21:38:04 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Jul 12 15:06:31 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 15:06:31 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Mar 26 08:39:48 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 08:39:53 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun Mar 08 19:24:07 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 08 19:24:07 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Mar 01 09:35:34 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 09:35:34 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Feb 11 13:37:45 -0800 2009 Fri May 29 12:45:05 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Dec 09 15:07:49 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 15:07:51 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Mon Oct 20 07:07:22 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 15 11:07:23 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 20 07:07:22 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Thu Oct 09 15:21:47 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 09 15:21:47 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Mon Sep 15 23:09:25 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 15 23:09:25 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Mon Aug 25 12:02:15 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 12:02:15 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Mon Aug 11 09:13:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 11 09:13:00 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Wed Jul 30 18:32:35 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 30 18:32:40 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Sat Jul 12 16:41:58 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 12 16:41:58 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Wed May 28 07:04:47 -0700 2008 Wed May 28 07:04:47 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=150093