{"product_id":"outliving-the-white-lie-a-southerners-historical-genealogical-and-personal-journey-hardback-9781496848086","title":"Outliving the White Lie; A Southerner's Historical, Genealogical, and Personal Journey (Hardback) 9781496848086","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eOutliving the White Lie\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Southerner's Historical, Genealogical, and Personal Journey\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJames Wiggins (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496848086\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 January 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e277 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.272 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eComprised of poignant, interwoven reflections on family, public history, and personal experience, \u003ci\u003eOutliving the White Lie\u003c\/i\u003e provides a sweeping history of the costs of slavery and white supremacy to the South and nation.\" - David R. Roediger, coeditor of \u003cem\u003eThe Construction of Whiteness: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Race Formation and the Meaning of a White Identity\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart history, part memoir, \u003ci\u003eOutliving the White Lie: A Southerner’s Historical, Genealogical, and Personal Journey\u003c\/i\u003e charts conflicting narratives of American and southern identity through a blend of public, family, and deeply personal history. Author James Wiggins, who was raised in rural Mississippi, pairs thorough historical research with his own lived experiences. \u003ci\u003eOutliving the White Lie\u003c\/i\u003e looks squarely at the many untruths regarding the history and legacy of race that have proliferated among white Americans, from the misrepresentations of Black Confederates to the myth of a \"postracial\" America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThough the US was ostensibly established to achieve freedom and shrug off an oppressive English monarchy, this mythology of the United States’ founding belies a glaring paradox—that this is a country whose foundation depends entirely on coercion and enslavement. How, then, could generations of decent people, people who valued individual liberty and personal autonomy, coexist within and alongside such a paradox? Historians suggest an answer: that these apparently dissonant points of view were reconciled in antebellum America by white citizens learning \"to live with slavery by learning to live a lie.\" The operative lie throughout American history and the lie underpinning the institution of slavery, they argue, has always been the fallacy of race—deliberately propagated tenets asserting skin color as the preeminent marker of identity and value. Wiggins takes accepted delusions to task in this moving reconciliation of southern living.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: The Boy Emperor’\u003cbr\u003es New-Old Clothes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1: Race and Me and Mississippi \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 1: The Larger Implications of the Small Debates of the Moment\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2: Our Distinguished Error Emeritus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3: Becoming Abraham Lincoln\u003cbr\u003e Remaining Robert E. Lee\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4: The Riddle of the Confederate Sphinx\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 5: The Black Confederates Who Were, and Those Who Weren’\u003cbr\u003et\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 6: The Sins of the Fourth-Great-Grandfathers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 7: Asset De-appreciation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 2: The Importance of Slavery in the Antebellum South (and Beyond)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 8: The \"Peculiar\" Case of the Antebellum South\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 9: Slavery’\u003cbr\u003es Capitalism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 10: Slavery’\u003cbr\u003es Freedom\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 3: How Slavery Shackled the White South\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 11: The Two Souths of Tom and Lewis, Sam and Elijah\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 12: The One Percent\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 13: The Miseducation of the South\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 4: How the White South Was Persuaded to Shackle Itself\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 14: The Invention of the White \"Race\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 15: \"Racecraft\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 16: The First Families of Racism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 17: The Solidarity Myth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 5: Constitutional Constructions, Reconstructions, and Deconstructions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 18: Diogenes Finds His Honorably Honest Southern Man\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 19: Constitutional Construction and the Reconstruction of American Democracy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 20: The Reconstruction and Deconstruction of American Democracy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 21: When Jim Crow Was Chairman of the School Board\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 22: Mac and Black Annie\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 23: Affirmative Action for White People\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 24: The Second Reconstruction of American Democracy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 6: The Second Deconstruction of American Democracy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 25: The Great Migration of the Yellow Dogs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 26: The Southern Strategy of the Republican Party\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 27: The Republican Strategy of the Southern Party\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 28: Trump (and Trumpism) as Mirror\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 29: The Third Reconstruction of American Democracy \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePostscript: Edley, the Mirror, and Me\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607700566296,"sku":"9781496848086","price":66.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/outliving-the-white-lie-a-southerners-historical-genealogical-and-personal-journey-hardback-9781496848086","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}