Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Souls of White Folk: African American Writers Theorize Whiteness

The Souls of White Folk: African American Writers Theorize Whiteness

Watson, Veronica T.

Hardcover

Series: Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies

Literary CriticismBlack American StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 161703889X
ISBN13: 9781617038891
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: Jul 29 2013
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This remarkable book not only offers an apt reminder of the extensive African American tradition of writing and theorizing about whiteness but also constitutes an arresting addition to that tradition. Ranging across a century of time and a variety of genres, Watson writes with texture, precision, and theoretical sophistication. She shows how African American thinkers made themselves experts on the ways whites apprehended and occupied the troubled realms in which they ruled. -David Roediger, coauthor of The Production of Difference Veronica Watson offers a brilliant analysis of African American engagement with whiteness in U.S. literature. In this historical journey examining the works of Chesnutt, Du Bois, Yerby, Hurston, and Beals, Watson reveals whiteness to be a labyrinth of insecurity, twisted intimacies, and terror. Resisting the tendency to narrow race studies to the focus on the 'black problem, ' Watson provides a searing examination of whiteness as a traumatized identity, a reality that makes even more remarkable a black willingness to understand, and in some instances, try to save white people from their own suffocation. The Souls of White Folk is a crucial contribution to critical whiteness studies and a beacon for understanding white estrangement from its own humanity. -Becky Thompson, author of A Promise and a Way of Life: White Antiracist Activism Veronica T. Watson is an associate professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She is also the director of the Frederick Douglass Institute for Intercultural Research. Her essays have been published in Mississippi Quarterly and the Journal of Ethnic American Literature, among others.

1 different editions

Also available

Also in

Literary Criticism

View All