The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Narratives Mura David
Uncovering the pernicious narratives white people create to justify white supremacy and sustain racist oppressionThe police murders of two Black men, Philando Castile and George Floyd, frame this…
Specifikacia The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Narratives Mura David
Uncovering the pernicious narratives white people create to justify white supremacy and sustain racist oppressionThe police murders of two Black men, Philando Castile and George Floyd, frame this searing exploration of the historical and fictional narratives that white America tells itself to justify and maintain white supremacy. 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.Intertwining history, literature, ethics, and the deeply personal, Mura looks back to foundational narratives of white supremacy (Jefferson's defense of slavery, Lincoln's frequently minimized racism, and the establishment of Jim Crow) to show how white identity is based on shared belief in the pernicious myths, false histories,