Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Race for Whiteness in the Twentieth Century / La Vinia Delois Jennings
I. Literature
Argentina White / Amy Kaminsky
A Dream of a White Vienna after World War I: Hugo Bettauer’s The City without Jews and The Blue Stain / Peter Höyng
From “Yélida” to Movimiento de Mujeres Dominico-Haitianas: Gendering Resistance to Whiteness in the Dominican Republic / Dawn Duke
Romancing Whiteness: Popular Appalachian Fiction and the Imperialist Imagination at the Turns of Two Centuries / Emily Satterwhite
The Threat to Whiteness: White Women’s Marital Betrayals in Colonial Settings / Suzanne Leonard
II. Performance
The Suspect Whiteness of Spain / Baltasar Fra-Molinero
The Myth of Whiteness and a Changing Italy: Historic Memory and Colonialist Attitudes in Lamerica / Renée D’Elia-Zunino
“Claiming”: White Ambition, Multiracial Identity, and the New American Racial Passing / Meredith McCarroll
Beyond the White Negro: Eminem, Danny Hoch, and Race Treason in Contemporary America / Kimberly Chabot Davis
Stalling Zion: Hegemony, Whiteness, and Racial Discourse in the Matrix Phenomenon / Douglas A. Cunningham
Contributors
Index