The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself : Racial Myths and Our American Narratives.

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: The Present Moment -- The Killing of Philando Castile and the Negation of Black Innocence -- Black Lives Matter and the Social Contract -- From the Harlem Riots to Ferguson, Baltimore, and BLM -- Part II: How We Narrate the Past -- White Memory and the Psychic Sherpa -- Racial Epistemologies and Ontologies -- Jefferson, the Enlightenment, and the Purposes of History -- The Master/Slave Dialectic and the Signifying Monkey -- Amistad, the Film and the Novel -- Faulkner and Morrison -- Lincoln Was a Great American, Lincoln Was a Racist -- Trump, Obama, and the Legacy of Reconstruction -- The Contemporary White Literary Imagination -- Racial Absence and Racial Presence in Jonathan Franzen and ZZ Packer -- Psychotherapy and a New National Narrative -- Part III: Where Do We Go from Here? -- Questions of Identity -- I Am Not Your Negro -- Abandoning Whiteness -- "I Can't Breathe" -- Daunte Wright -- Appendix: A Brief Guide to Structural Racism -- The Current Epistemology of White Supremacy -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author.

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