middle-class white anxieties
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The History of Literature #522 — Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature (with Jolene Hubbs) | My Last Book with Mark Cirino
In the late nineteenth century, a popular magazine ran a cartoon with what it called “a race problem.” Tensions between black and white Americans in the postwar era? Nope. It was referring to a poor white southerner – shabby, slouching, lazy, and dumb – the kind of good-for-nothing layabout who would bring down the striving… Continue reading