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64%OFFTimothy J. Lensmire - White Folks: Race and Identity in Rural America - 9781138747036 - V9781138747036
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White Folks: Race and Identity in Rural America

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Description for White Folks: Race and Identity in Rural America Paperback. .
White Folks explores the experiences and stories of eight white people from a small farming community in northern Wisconsin. It examines how white people learn to be `white' and reveals how white racial identity is dependent on people of color-even in situations where white people have little or no contact with racial others. Drawing on in-depth interviews with Delores, Frank, William, Erin, Robert, Libby, and Stan, as well as on his own experiences growing up in this same rural community, Lensmire creates a portrait of white people that highlights how their relations to people ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives
Condition
New
Number of Pages
104
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781138747036
SKU
V9781138747036
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-9

About Timothy J. Lensmire
Timothy J. Lensmire is Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Minnesota, where he teaches courses in literacy, critical pedagogy, and race. His early work focused on how the teaching of writing might contribute to education for radical democracy. His current research seeks to build descriptions of, and theoretical insights about, how white people learn ... Read more

Reviews for White Folks: Race and Identity in Rural America
This provocative book demands that we take the whiteness of struggling rural white communities seriously. It does so not by asking What's the matter? with those who live in the Wisconsin countryside but by listening to residents describe the complex processes through which segregated lives produce imaginations of race that are at once counterproductive, tragic, and very much ... Read more

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