Off Whiteness: place, blood and tradition in the post-Reconstruction South
- Submitting institution
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Birmingham City University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 27Z_OP_A0002
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- University of Tennessee Press
- ISBN
- 978-1-62190-581-3
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph (pp.302) is the first study to consider the construct of Southern whiteness through the distinct lenses of place, blood and heritage. It examines the works of Ellen Glasgow, Thomas Nelson Page, Alice Dunbar-Nelson and Charles Waddell Chesnutt, showing that for these writers the complexity of whiteness exceeded the white versus black dichotomy to encompass cultural heritage and historical legacy. Focusing on the post-Reconstruction as a key period in the history of the South, the book investigates the ambivalence of Southern whiteness that stems from the interdependence and irreconcilability between whiteness as a metaphor and its manifestations in society.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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