Description: The first book to examine whiteness as an intellectual tradition within African American literature
Brief description: Veronica T. Watson is professor of English and director of the literature and criticism program at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She is coeditor of Unveiling Whiteness in the Twenty-First Century: Global Manifestations, Transdisciplinary Interventions; editor of The Short Stories of Frank Yerby; and author of The Souls of White Folk: African American Writers Theorize Whiteness, the latter two published by University Press of Mississippi.
Review Quotes: This remarkable book not only offers an apt reminder of the extensive African American tradition of writing and theorizing about whiteness but also constitutes an arresting addition to that tradition. Ranging across a century of time and a variety of genres, Watson writes with texture, precision, and theoretical sophistication. She shows how African American thinkers made themselves experts on the ways whites apprehended and occupied the troubled realms in which they ruled.--David Roediger, coauthor of The Production of Difference