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  title info:
    non sort: "
    title: Our generation had nothing to do with discrimination"
    sub title: white southern memory of Jim Crow and civil rights
  name:
    name part: Lavelle, Kristen.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Feagin, Joe R.
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: The ways in which white Americans understand the racial landscape and their own racial identities are not well understood. Through the lens of the racial past, in this study I investigate how memory operates within the white racial frame, the dominant white-centric worldview, to uphold systemic racism and to maintain whites' collective and individual identities. Through a narrative analysis of original in-depth interviews conducted with 44 ordinary white southerners--lifetime residents of Greensboro, North Carolina--who lived through the legal segregation and civil rights eras, this research demonstrates the interviewees' contemporary investment in positive notions of the white self and white society. The respondents' autobiographical narratives of life during legal segregation, a time of overt white supremacy, are typified by nostalgia for a childhood era of safety, security, and "good" race relations. Interviewees' narratives of the civil rights era, including nonviolent student sit-in protests for which Greensboro is known and school desegregation, have themes of disruption, danger, and white victimization. Overall, respondents portray Jim Crow segregation as a calm and peaceful time and the civil rights era as chaotic and harmful to whites, at the same time as they acknowledge, to a limited extent, the unfairness of Jim Crow's blatant racial inequalities. In this work I propose the concepts white victimology, white protectionism, and white moral identity. I argue that white victimology--whites' perception, largely imagined, of their own racial victimization--is a major ideological and emotional facet of the white racial frame, whereby whites dismiss the historical and contemporary reality of white racism. My analysis demonstrates that white victimology is a primary way in which whites assert themselves, individually and collectively, as racial innocents and "good" people. In this work I also conceptualize the dynamic of white protectionism, explanatory and rheto…
  note: by Kristen Marie Lavelle.
  note: "Major Subject: Sociology"
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Doctor of Philosophy Texas A&M University 2011 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-05-9402
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Dissertation)
  subject:
    topic: Major Sociology
  subject:
    topic: segregation
  subject:
    topic: white racism
  subject:
    topic: racial discourse
  subject:
    topic: Jim Crow
  subject:
    topic: white racial frame
  subject:
    topic: white Americans
  subject:
    topic: American South
  subject:
    topic: whiteness studies
  subject:
    topic: social memory
  subject:
    topic: racial identity
  subject:
    topic: white southerners
  subject:
    topic: racial memory
  subject:
    topic: moral identity
  subject:
    topic: Civil Rights Movement
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-05-9402
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 120813
    record change date: 20150922110950.0
    record identifier: in00002768380