White Bound

Author : Matthew Hughey
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804783316

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White Bound by Matthew Hughey Pdf

Discussions of race are inevitably fraught with tension, both in opinion and positioning. Too frequently, debates are framed as clear points of opposition—us versus them. And when considering white racial identity, a split between progressive movements and a neoconservative backlash is all too frequently assumed. Taken at face value, it would seem that whites are splintering into antagonistic groups, with differing worldviews, values, and ideological stances. White Bound investigates these dividing lines, questioning the very notion of a fracturing whiteness, and in so doing offers a unique view of white racial identity. Matthew Hughey spent over a year attending the meetings, reading the literature, and interviewing members of two white organizations—a white nationalist group and a white antiracist group. Though he found immediate political differences, he observed surprising similarities. Both groups make meaning of whiteness through a reliance on similar racist and reactionary stories and worldviews. On the whole, this book puts abstract beliefs and theoretical projection about the supposed fracturing of whiteness into relief against the realities of two groups never before directly compared with this much breadth and depth. By examining the similarities and differences between seemingly antithetical white groups, we see not just the many ways of being white, but how these actors make meaning of whiteness in ways that collectively reproduce both white identity and, ultimately, white supremacy.

Author : Susan Rebecca White
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416560630

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Bound South by Susan Rebecca White Pdf

From the award-winning author of A Soft Place to Land and A Place at the Table comes a tale of three vibrant and unique Southern women—Louise, Caroline, and Missy—as their lives intersect in unexpected and extraordinary ways. From the outside, Louise Parker seems like a proper Southern matron. But inside, Louise seethes. She’s thwarted by her seemingly perfect husband, frustrated with her talented but rebellious daughter, scarred by her philandering father, and exasperated by her unstable mother. Louise simply doesn’t know how to stop playing the role she’s been starring in for her entire life. A gifted actress, Louise’s daughter Caroline can make any character seem real when she takes the stage. But Caroline is lost when it comes to relationships, especially when dealing with her mother. When Caroline’s young, handsome drama teacher seduces her, she can’t resist. But her forbidden affair will lead Caroline to a different kind of stage, with a new audience. Missy loves Jesus nearly as much as she misses her father, a part-time minister who deserted his family when Missy was three. She accompanies her mother to work as a maid at the Parker residence, for two reasons: to help her mother to clean the house and to save the Parkers’ irreverent son Charles. By turns hilarious and poignant, this is a richly compelling debut novel of family, friendship, and folly.

Author : James J. Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590694184

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The historical handbook and guide to Oxford by James J. Moore Pdf

Author : Shelby Steele
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781416560890

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A Bound Man by Shelby Steele Pdf

An illuminating examination of the complex racial issues that President Barack Obama faced in his race for the White House, a quest that forced a national dialogue on the current state of race relations in America, by the author of the New York Times bestseller and NBCC winner The Content of Our Character. Poverty and inequality are typically the focus of dialogues that take place during presidential elections, but Obama’s bid for so high an office pushed the conversation to a more abstract level where race is a politics of guilt and innocence generated by our painful racial history—a kind of morality play between (and within) the races in which innocence is power and guilt is impotence. Steele writes of how Obama was caught between the two classic postures that Blacks have always used to make their way in the white American mainstream: bargaining and challenging. Bargainers strike a “bargain” with white America in which they say, I will not rub America’s ugly history of racism in your face if you will not hold my race against me. Challengers do the opposite of bargainers. They charge whites with inherent racism and then demand that they prove themselves innocent by supporting Black-friendly policies like affirmative action and diversity. Steele maintains that, during the race, Obama was too constrained by these elaborate politics to find his own true political voice. Obama has the temperament, intelligence, and background—an interracial family, a sterling education—to guide America beyond the exhausted racial politics that now prevail. And yet he is a Promethean figure, a bound man. Says Steele, Americans are constrained by a racial correctness so totalitarian that we are afraid even to privately ask ourselves what we think about racial matters. Like Obama, most of us find it easier to program ourselves for correctness rather than risk knowing and expressing what we truly feel. Obama emerges as a kind of Everyman in whom we can see our own struggle to accept and honor what we honestly feel about race. In A Bound Man, Steele makes clear the precise constellation of forces that bind Obama and proposes a way for him to break these bonds and find his own voice. The courage to trust in one’s own careful judgment is the new racial progress, the “way out” from the forces that now bind us all.

Author : David K. Wiggins
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0815627343

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Glory Bound by David K. Wiggins Pdf

African American athletes have experienced a tumultuous relationship with mainstream white America. Glory Bound brings together for the first time eleven essays that explore this complex topic. In his writings, well-known sports scholar David K. Wiggins recounts the struggle of black athletes to participate fully in sports while maintaining their own cultural identity and pride. Wiggins examines the seminal moments that defined and changed the black athlete's role in white America from the nineteenth century to the present: the personal crusade of Wendell Smith to promote black participation in organized baseball, the triumph of Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics and the proposed boycott of the Games, and the response of America's black press and community. Glory Bound demonstrates how the civil rights movement changed the face of American athletics and society forever. With the genesis of the black power movement in sport, Wiggins notes a significant shift in black—and white—America's attention to the African American athlete.

Author : Gregory D. Coleman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820316849

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We're Heaven Bound! by Gregory D. Coleman Pdf

Recounts the history of a liturgical play produced by an African American church in Atlanta since 1930

Author : Larry E. Tise,Jeffrey J. Crow
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469634609

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New Voyages to Carolina by Larry E. Tise,Jeffrey J. Crow Pdf

New Voyages to Carolina offers a bold new approach for understanding and telling North Carolina's history. Recognizing the need for such a fresh approach and reflecting a generation of recent scholarship, eighteen distinguished authors have sculpted a broad, inclusive narrative of the state's evolution over more than four centuries. The volume provides new lenses and provocative possibilities for reimagining the state's past. Transcending traditional markers of wars and elections, the contributors map out a new chronology encompassing geological realities; the unappreciated presence of Indians, blacks, and women; religious and cultural influences; and abiding preferences for industrial development within the limits of "progressive" politics. While challenging traditional story lines, the authors frame a candid tale of the state's development. Contributors: Dorothea V. Ames, East Carolina University Karl E. Campbell, Appalachian State University James C. Cobb, University of Georgia Peter A. Coclanis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Stephen Feeley, McDaniel College Jerry Gershenhorn, North Carolina Central University Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Yale University Patrick Huber, Missouri University of Science and Technology Charles F. Irons, Elon University David Moore, Warren Wilson College Michael Leroy Oberg, State University of New York, College at Geneseo Stanley R. Riggs, East Carolina University Richard D. Starnes, Western Carolina University Carole Watterson Troxler, Elon University Bradford J. Wood, Eastern Kentucky University Karin Zipf, East Carolina University

Author : Douglas Flamming
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520239197

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Bound for Freedom by Douglas Flamming Pdf

A definitive, illustrated account of Los Angeles's black community in the half century before World War I details African-American community life and political activism during the city's transformation from a small town to a sprawling metropolis.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN : WISC:89007973332

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American Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular by Anonim Pdf

Author : Milton C. Sernett
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0822319934

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Bound For the Promised Land by Milton C. Sernett Pdf

DIVDiscusses the migration of African-Americans from the south to the north after WWI through the 1940s and the effect this had on African-American churches and religions./div

Author : Henry Ward Beecher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1272 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Christianity
ISBN : WISC:89092857366

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The Christian Union by Henry Ward Beecher Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555043799

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The World of fashion and continental feuilletons [afterw.] The Ladies' monthly magazine, The World of fashion [afterw.] Le Monde élégant; or The World of fashion by Anonim Pdf

Author : Abdul R. JanMohamed
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005-04-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822386629

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The Death-Bound-Subject by Abdul R. JanMohamed Pdf

During the 1940s, in response to the charge that his writing was filled with violence, Richard Wright replied that the manner came from the matter, that the “relationship of the American Negro to the American scene [was] essentially violent,” and that he could deny neither the violence he had witnessed nor his own existence as a product of racial violence. Abdul R. JanMohamed provides extraordinary insight into Wright’s position in this first study to explain the fundamental ideological and political functions of the threat of lynching in Wright’s work and thought. JanMohamed argues that Wright’s oeuvre is a systematic and thorough investigation of what he calls the death-bound-subject, the subject who is formed from infancy onward by the imminent threat of death. He shows that with each successive work, Wright delved further into the question of how living under a constant menace of physical violence affected his protagonists and how they might “free” themselves by overcoming their fear of death and redeploying death as the ground for their struggle. Drawing on psychoanalytic, Marxist, and phenomenological analyses, and on Orlando Patterson’s notion of social death, JanMohamed develops comprehensive, insightful, and original close readings of Wright’s major publications: his short-story collection Uncle Tom’s Children; his novels Native Son, The Outsider, Savage Holiday, and The Long Dream; and his autobiography Black Boy/American Hunger. The Death-Bound-Subject is a stunning reevaluation of the work of a major twentieth-century American writer, but it is also much more. In demonstrating how deeply the threat of death is involved in the formation of black subjectivity, JanMohamed develops a methodology for understanding the presence of the death-bound-subject in African American literature and culture from the earliest slave narratives forward.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCAL:B4171017

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The Publishers Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tyina L. Steptoe
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520958531

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Houston Bound by Tyina L. Steptoe Pdf

Beginning after World War I, Houston was transformed from a black-and-white frontier town into one of the most ethnically and racially diverse urban areas in the United States. Houston Bound draws on social and cultural history to show how, despite Anglo attempts to fix racial categories through Jim Crow laws, converging migrations—particularly those of Mexicans and Creoles—complicated ideas of blackness and whiteness and introduced different understandings about race. This migration history also uses music and sound to examine these racial complexities, tracing the emergence of Houston's blues and jazz scenes in the 1920s as well as the hybrid forms of these genres that arose when migrants forged shared social space and carved out new communities and politics. This interdisciplinary book provides both an innovative historiography about migration and immigration in the twentieth century and a critical examination of a city located in the former Confederacy.