The stories Whiteness tells itself : racial myths and our American narratives /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mura, David (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2022]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The Killing of Philando Castile and the Negation of Black Innocence
  • Black Lives Matter and the Social Contract
  • James Baldwin and the Repetitions of History: From the Harlem Riots to Ferguson, Baltimore, and BLM
  • White Memory and the Psychic Sherpa
  • How We Think-or Don't Think-about It: Racial Epistemologies and Ontologies
  • Jefferson, the Enlightenment, and the Purposes of History
  • Black History: The Master/Slave Dialectic and the Signifying Monkey
  • Whiteness in Storytelling: Amistad, the Film and the Novel
  • Portraits of Slavery: Faulkner and Morrison
  • Lincoln Was a Great American, Lincoln Was a Racist
  • Racial Regression: Trump, Obama, and the Legacy of Reconstruction
  • The Contemporary White Literary Imagination
  • Racial Absence and Racial Presence in Jonathan Franzen and ZZ Packer
  • Psychotherapy and a New National Narrative
  • Questions of Identity
  • James Baldwin: I Am Not Your Negro
  • Abandoning Whiteness
  • "I Can't Breathe"
  • Coda: Daunte Wright.