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Keywords
- America
- cultural theory
- culture
- drama
- ethnicity
- fiction
- history of literature
- identity
- literary theory
- literature
- novel
- Renaissance
- social science
- social structure
- sociology
- British and Irish Literature
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'In this wide-ranging, deftly coordinated, incisively focused book, Gary Taylor addresses two Renaissances. Making a major contribution to the new subfield of whiteness studies in the English Renaissance, Taylor locates the origin of an explicit appeal to white racial identity in the second decade of the 17th century-a turning point he illuminates through strong comparative analysis of the transition from Shakespeare to Thomas Middleton. Moreover, since the book's reach extends to the 19th-century American literary Renaissance, revised to include African-American voices, Taylor also brilliantly reconfigures the overall framework of whiteness studies as a whole. Gary Taylor speaks with contemporary urgency about the persistent problem of white blindness to white skin privilege: presenting a comprehensive, detailed history of white identity formation, Taylor opens our eyes. Future scholarship starts here.' - Peter Erickson, author of Patriarchal Structures in Shakespeare's Drama and Rewriting Shakespeare, Rewriting Ourselves
'Gary Taylor's meditation on whiteness is learned, articulate, and deeply felt. Much of the material will be unfamiliar to most readers, and the argument, original and provocative, genuinely transforms an essential part of the social and cultural landscape. This is an important and exciting book.' - Stephen Orgel, J.E. Reynolds Professor in Humanities, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Buying Whiteness
Book Subtitle: Race, Culture, and Identity from Columbus to Hip-hop
Authors: G. Taylor
Series Title: Signs of Race
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6071-9Published: 31 January 2005
Series ISSN: 2945-6312
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6320
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 497