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Book SynopsisArgues that in its political workings, its distribution of advantages, and its unspoken assumptions, the United States is a 'still white' nation. This book presents an account of race-transcending radicalism exemplified by vanguards such as WEB Du Bois and John Brown.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments One: Still White 1. All about Eve, Critical White Studies, and Getting Over Whiteness 2. Smear Campaign: Giuliani, the Holy Virgin Mary, and the Critical Study of Whiteness 3. White Looks and Limbaugh's Laugh 4. White Workers, New Democrats, and Affirmative Action 5. "Hertz, Don't It?" White "Colorblindness" and the Mark(et)ings of O.J. Simpson (with Leola Johnson) Two: Toward Nonwhite Histories 6. Nonwhite Radicalism: Du Bois, John Brown, and Black Resistance 7. White Slavery, Abolition, and Coalition: Languages of Race, Class, and Gender 8. The Pursuit of Whiteness: Property, Terror, and Expansion, 1790--1860 9. Inbetween Peoples: Race, Nationality, and the "New-Immigrant" Working Class (with James Barrett) 10. Plotting against Eurocentrism: The 1929 Surrealist Map of the World Three: The Past/Presence of Nonwhiteness 11. What If Labor Were Not White and Male? 12. Mumia Time or Sweeney Time? 13. In Conclusion: Elvis, Wiggers, and Crossing Over to Nonwhiteness Notes Credits Index
