The Literature Network - Learning to be White: Money, Race, and God in America.(Also 'Producing American Races: Henry James, William Faulkner, Toni Marrison')(Book Review)

Learning to be White: Money, Race, and God in America.(Also 'Producing American Races: Henry James, William Faulkner, Toni Marrison')(Book Review)

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From: The Mississippi Quarterly
Date: 20020322
Author:Stecopoulos, Harry

by Thandeka. New York: Continuum, 1999. 180 pp. $22.95 hardback, $16.95 paper; Producing American Races: Henry James, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, by Patricia McKee. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1999. 256 pp. $54.95 cloth, $18.95 paper.

BOTH LEARNING TO BE WHITE AND PRODUCING AMERICAN RACES alert the reader to these scholars' shared interest in race-as-process. Thandeka, a Unitarian Universalist minister, and McKee, a professor of English, each insist on conceptualizing racial identity as a fluid and necessarily incomplete project, whether for individuals ...

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