Description: Outliving the White Lie by James Wiggins Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description 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. 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. Details ISBN 1496850351 ISBN-13 9781496850355 Title Outliving the White Lie Author James Wiggins Format Paperback Year 2024 Pages 277 Publisher University Press of Mississippi GE_Item_ID:159083279; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys
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ISBN-13: 9781496850355
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Book Title: Outliving the White Lie : a Southerner's Historical, Genealogical, and Personal Journey
Number of Pages: 298 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Topic: Cultural Heritage, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Social History, Regional Studies
Publication Year: 2024
Item Height: 0.9 in
Genre: Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 16.9 Oz
Item Length: 8.9 in
Author: James Wiggins
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Trade Paperback
