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The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself : Racial Myths and Our American Narratives / David Mura.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mura, David, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Essays. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- White people--Race identity--United States.
- White people.
- Racism--United States.
- Racism.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "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. Mura shows how deeply we need to change our racial narratives to dissolve the myth of Whiteness and fully acknowledge the experiences of Black Americans"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: The Present Moment
- The Killing of Philando Castile and the Negation of Black Innocence
- Black Lives Matter and the Social Contract
- From the Harlem Riots to Ferguson, Baltimore, and BLM
- Part II: How We Narrate the Past
- White Memory and the Psychic Sherpa
- Racial Epistemologies and Ontologies
- Jefferson, the Enlightenment, and the Purposes of History
- The Master/Slave Dialectic and the Signifying Monkey
- Amistad, the Film and the Novel
- Faulkner and Morrison
- Lincoln Was a Great American, Lincoln Was a Racist
- Trump, Obama, and the Legacy of Reconstruction
- The Contemporary White Literary Imagination
- Racial Absence and Racial Presence in Jonathan Franzen and ZZ Packer
- Psychotherapy and a New National Narrative
- Part III: Where Do We Go from Here?
- Questions of Identity
- I Am Not Your Negro
- Abandoning Whiteness
- "I Can't Breathe"
- Daunte Wright
- Appendix: A Brief Guide to Structural Racism
- The Current Epistemology of White Supremacy
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781452968445
- 9781452968438
- 1452968438
- OCLC:
- 1354944887
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