Grace Elizabeth Hale
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“Slavery, in other words, founded and fixed the meaning of blackness more than any transparent and transhistorical meaning of black skin founded the category of slavery.”
― Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940
― Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940
“Yet it was racial identity that became the paramount spatial mediation of modernity within the newly reunited nation. Not self-evidently more meaningful, not more real or natural than other markings, race nevertheless became the crucial means of ordering the newly enlarged meaning of America. This happened because former Confederates, a growing working class, embattled farmers, western settlers, a defensive northeastern elite, women’s rights advocates, an”
― Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940
― Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940
“Making whiteness American culture, the nation has forgone other possibilities. The hybridity that could have been our greatest strength has been made into a means of playing across the color line, with its rotting distance of voyeurism and partisanship, a confirmation of social and psychological division.”
― Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940
― Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940
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