White flights : race, fiction, and the American imagination /

"White Flights is a meditation on whiteness in American fiction and culture from the end of the civil rights movement to the present. At the heart of the book, Jess Row ties "white flight"--The movement of white Americans into segregated communities, whether in suburbs or newly gentri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Row, Jess (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2019.
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Table of Contents:
  • Eating the blame: the question of reparative writing
  • On seeing, waking, and being woke
  • Beautiful shame (or, What we talk about when we talk about white writing)
  • White flights
  • Part of us not made at home
  • What is the point of this way of dying: a white blues
  • White out.