LEADER 05591nam 2200913 a 450 001 9910812691903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-21038-X 010 $a9786613210388 010 $a1-60473-040-4 010 $a1-4175-0698-9 035 $a(CKB)111090425051388 035 $a(OCoLC)614929068 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10157863 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000590553 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12179843 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000590553 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10670067 035 $a(PQKB)10047464 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000159598 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11164535 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000159598 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10159758 035 $a(PQKB)11687674 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC746926 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL746926 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10157863 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL321038 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111090425051388 100 $a20020222d2002 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe fugitive race $eminority writers resisting whiteness /$fStephen P. Knadler 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aJackson $cUniversity Press of Mississippi$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (274 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-934110-34-5 311 $a1-57806-506-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 221-238) and index. 327 $aCover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Introduction: "Fugitive Race" Culture -- The Fugitive Race -- 1. Narrative Interruptions of Panic -- 2. Miscegenated Whiteness -- 3. "Corporeal Suspicion" -- 4. Unacquiring Negrophobia -- 5. Dis-integrating Third Spaces -- 6. White Dissolution -- 7. Queer Aztlan, Mestizing "White" Queer Theory -- Coda: Anti-Racist Apartheid -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Footnote -- ch05fn1. 330 $aDenying its formative dialogues with minorities, the white race, Stephen P. Knadler contends, has been a fugitive race. While the "white question," like the "Negro question," and the "woman question" a century earlier, has garnered considerable critical attention among scholars looking to find new anti-race strategies, these investigations need to highlight not just the exclusion of people of color, but also examine minority writers' resistance to and disruption of this privileged racial category. "Highly original, wonderfully detailed, and thought provoking," says Professor Candace Waid of Knadler's intellectually challenging book. Although excluded, people of color looked back in anger, laughter, and wisdom to challenge the unexamined lie of a self-evident whiteness. Looking at fictional and nonfictional texts written between 1850 and 1984, The Fugitive Race traces a long cultural and literary history of the ways African Americans, Asian Americans, Jewish Americans, Chicanos, gays, and lesbians have challenged the shape and meaning of so-called white identities. From the antebellum period to the 1980s, the belief in a white racial superiority, or simply a white difference, has denied that people of color might and do have an influence on the supposedly pure or protected character of whiteness. In contrast, this book attempts to define a new way of analyzing minority literature that questions this segregated color line. In addition to creating a new racial awareness, many writers of color tried to interfere in the historical formulation of whiteness. They created unsettling moments when white readers had to see themselves for the first time from the outside-in, or from the critical perspective of non-white writers. These writers--including William Wells Brown, Pauline Hopkins, Abraham Cahan, Young-hill Kang, Zora Neale Hurston, and Arturo 330 8 $aIslas--did not simply resist assimilation. They sought to dismantle the white identities that lay as the foundation of the master's house. Stephen P. Knadler, an assistant professor of English at Spelman College, has been published in American Literature , American Literary History , American Quarterly , Minnesota Review , and Modern Fiction Studies. 606 $aAmerican literature$xMinority authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMinorities$zUnited States$xIntellectual life 606 $aHuman skin color$xPsychological aspects 606 $aIdentity (Psychology) in literature 606 $aHuman skin color in literature 606 $aGroup identity in literature 606 $aEthnic groups in literature 606 $aMinorities in literature 606 $aEthnicity in literature 606 $aWhites in literature 606 $aWhite in literature 606 $aRace in literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xMinority authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMinorities$xIntellectual life. 615 0$aHuman skin color$xPsychological aspects. 615 0$aIdentity (Psychology) in literature. 615 0$aHuman skin color in literature. 615 0$aGroup identity in literature. 615 0$aEthnic groups in literature. 615 0$aMinorities in literature. 615 0$aEthnicity in literature. 615 0$aWhites in literature. 615 0$aWhite in literature. 615 0$aRace in literature. 676 $a810.9/920693 700 $aKnadler$b Stephen P.$f1963-$01679640 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812691903321 996 $aThe fugitive race$94048041 997 $aUNINA