Description: Outliving the White Lie by James Wiggins Part history, part memoir, Outliving the White Lie charts conflicting narratives of American and southern identity through a blend of public, family, and deeply personal history. James Wiggins, who was raised in rural Mississippi, pairs thorough historical research with his own lived experiences. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Part history, part memoir, Outliving the White Lie: A Southerners Historical, Genealogical, and Personal Journey charts conflicting narratives of American and southern identity through a blend of public, family, and deeply personal history. Author James Wiggins, who was raised in rural Mississippi, pairs thorough historical research with his own lived experiences. Outliving the White Lie looks squarely at the many untruths regarding the history and legacy of race that have proliferated among white Americans, from the misrepresentations of Black Confederates to the myth of a "postracial" America.Though the US was ostensibly established to achieve freedom and shrug off an oppressive English monarchy, this mythology of the United States founding belies a glaring paradox—that this is a country whose foundation depends entirely on coercion and enslavement. How, then, could generations of decent people, people who valued individual liberty and personal autonomy, coexist within and alongside such a paradox? Historians suggest an answer: that these apparently dissonant points of view were reconciled in antebellum America by white citizens learning "to live with slavery by learning to live a lie." The operative lie throughout American history and the lie underpinning the institution of slavery, they argue, has always been the fallacy of race—deliberately propagated tenets asserting skin color as the preeminent marker of identity and value. Wiggins takes accepted delusions to task in this moving reconciliation of southern living. Author Biography James Wiggins is a former instructor of history at Copiah-Lincoln Community College and features columnist for the Natchez Democrat. Review Comprised of poignant, interwoven reflections on family, public history, and personal experience, Outliving the White Lie provides a sweeping history of the costs of slavery and white supremacy to the South and nation." - David R. Roediger, coeditor of The Construction of Whiteness: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Race Formation and the Meaning of a White Identity Details ISBN1496850351 Author James Wiggins Publisher University Press of Mississippi Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781496850355 Format Paperback Imprint University Press of Mississippi Subtitle A Southerners Historical, Genealogical, and Personal Journey Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2024-02-15 NZ Release Date 2024-02-15 UK Release Date 2024-02-15 Pages 277 Place of Publication Jackson Audience Professional & Vocational ISBN-10 1496850351 DEWEY 305.800976 Publication Date 2024-01-31 US Release Date 2024-01-31 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159619175;
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