David Mura Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Narratives 9781517914547

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Автор: David Mura
Название: Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Narratives
ISBN: 9781517914547
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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ISBN-10: 151791454X
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 312
Вес: 0.45 кг.
Дата издания: 31.01.2023
Язык: English
Размер: 229 x 152 x 25
Ключевые слова: Literary essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations
Подзаголовок: Racial myths and our american narratives
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Поставляется из: Англии
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Uncovering the pernicious narratives white people create to justify white supremacy and sustain racist oppression

The police murders of two Black men, Philando Castile and George Floyd, frame this searing exploration of the historical and fictional narratives that white America tells itself to justify and maintain white supremacy. From the country’s founding through the summer of Black Lives Matter in 2020, David Mura unmasks how white stories about race attempt to erase the brutality of the past and underpin systemic racism in the present.

Intertwining history, literature, ethics, and the deeply personal, Mura looks back to foundational narratives of white supremacy (Jefferson’s defense of slavery, Lincoln’s frequently minimized racism, and the establishment of Jim Crow) to show how white identity is based on shared belief in the pernicious myths, false histories, and racially segregated fictions that allow whites to deny their culpability in past atrocities and current inequities. White supremacy always insists white knowledge is superior to Black knowledge, Mura argues, and this belief dismisses the truths embodied in Black narratives.

Mura turns to literature, comparing the white savior portrayal of the film Amistad to the novelization of its script by the Black novelist Alexs Pate, which focuses on its African protagonists; depictions of slavery in Faulkner and Morrison; and race’s absence in the fiction of Jonathan Franzen and its inescapable presence in works by ZZ Packer, tracing the construction of Whiteness to willfully distorted portraits of race in America. In James Baldwin’s essays, Mura finds a response to this racial distortion and a way for Blacks and other BIPOC people to heal from the wounds of racism.

Taking readers beyond apology, contrition, or sadness, Mura attends to the persistent trauma racism has exacted and lays bare how deeply we need to change our racial narratives—what white people must do—to dissolve the myth of Whiteness and fully acknowledge the stories and experiences of Black Americans.

Дополнительное описание: Essays

Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Narratives, David Mura