David Mura | Issue 23

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

From The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself:

The Absence of Racial Identity for White Characters

In The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself, I analyze a basic contradiction in the American story: From its very beginnings America had two irreconcilable goals. One was to seek equality, freedom, and democracy. The other was to maintain white supremacy and the dominat…