Whiteness and American Literature

Jolene Hubbs, a professor of American studies at the University of Alabama, is the author of Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature (2022).

• Introduction Jolene Hubbs; Part I. Whiteness and National Identity: 1. The imperial sounds of whiteness Harilaos Stecopoulos; 2. Whiteness in late-nineteenth-century literature and law Mita Banerjee; 3. Poor white people in the eugenic imagination Matt Wray; 4. White nationalism Edward K. Chan; 5. Whiteness and the US-Mexico border Lee Bebout; 6. How Hollywood pictures whiteness Justin Gomer; 7. Whiteface minstrels, stage Europeans, and twenty-first-century television dramas Marvin McAllister; Part II. Whiteness in the American literary imagination: 8. Whiteness in nineteenth-century speculative writing Hannah Lauren Murray; 9. Whiteness and the slave narrative John Ernest; 10. Passing in modernist literature Masami Sugimori; 11. Whiteness in African American writers' nonfictional works Veronica T. Watson; 12. The historical novel of whiteness T. Austin Graham; 13. The unbearable whiteness of contemporary US climate fiction Teresa A. Goddu; 14. The twenty-first-century white life novel Stephanie Li; Part III. Approaches to Whiteness: 15. Whiteness and food studies Catherine Keyser; 16. Whiteness and queer studies Andrew Donnelly; 17. Whiteness and legal studies Eden Osucha; 18. Whiteness and working-class studies Timothy Helwig; 19. Whiteness and feminism Taylor Nygaard and Jorie Lagerwey; 20. Whiteness and disability studies Stephen Knadler.