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The idea of whiteness is a peculiar invention, one with a tangled and complex history. We need texts that tell us how we got here and how whiteness became the standard while blackness was consigned to the margins. By examining depictions of poor whites and the idea of whiteness in a variety of literary texts--commercial as well as classic--Peculiar Whiteness helps us understand.--W. Ralph Eubanks, author of The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South

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Justin Mellette is a visiting lecturer at Northeastern University. He earned his PhD from Penn State University and has also been a postdoctoral teaching fellow at Auburn University. His work in American and African American literature has appeared in African American Review, Mississippi Quarterly, Studies in the Novel, Southern Cultures, and the Southern Quarterly, among other venues.

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