Meredith McCarroll 
Unwhite [EPUB ebook] 
Appalachia, Race, and Film

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Appalachia resides in the American imagination at the intersections of race and class in a very particular way, in the tension between deep historic investments in seeing the region as “pure white stock” and as deeply impoverished and backward. Meredith Mc Carroll’s Unwhite analyzes the fraught location of Appalachians within the southern and American imaginaries, building on studies of race in literary and cinematic characterizations of the American South. Not only do we know what “rednecks” and “white trash” are, Mc Carroll argues, we rely on the continued use of such categories in fashioning our broader sense of self and other. Further, we continue to depend upon the existence of the region of Appalachia as a cultural construct. As a consequence, Appalachia has long been represented in the collective cultural history as the lowest, the poorest, the most ignorant, and the most laughable community. Mc Carroll complicates this understanding by asserting that white privilege remains intact while Appalachia is othered through reliance on recognizable nonwhite cinematic stereotypes.
Unwhite demonstrates how typical characterizations of Appalachian people serve as foils to set off and define the “whiteness” of the non-Appalachian southerners. In this dynamic, Appalachian characters become the racial other. Analyzing the representation of the people of Appalachia in films such as Deliverance, Cold Mountain, Medium Cool, Norma Rae, Cape Fear, The Killing Season, and Winter’s Bone through the critical lens of race and specifically whiteness, Mc Carroll offers a reshaping of the understanding of the relationship between racial and regional identities.

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MEREDITH Mc CARROLL is the director of writing and rhetoric at Bowdoin College. She was born and raised in Western North Carolina and earned her Ph D at University of Tennessee.

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Lingua Inglese ● Formato EPUB ● Pagine 172 ● ISBN 9780820353371 ● Dimensione 1.0 MB ● Casa editrice University of Georgia Press ● Città Athens ● Paese US ● Pubblicato 2018 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 6669408 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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