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In Staging Whiteness, Mary Brewer offers close textual readings of plays by American and British 20th century playwrights - both canonical and some that fall outside the mainstream - looking at how whiteness as an identity is created onstage, and how this has changed historically. With clarity and persuasion, Brewer argues that configurations of whiteness are dispersed and reflected through discourses that range from theory to literature and common social language, and that discursive performances of whiteness are a crucial feature of everyday social interactions.

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Staging Whiteness is a work of great ambition and reach, providing at once an apt introduction to the critical study of whiteness and an arresting application of such study to Anglo-American theorists and theater makers over the last century and more. -- David Roediger, Babcock Professor of History and African American Studies, University of Illinois

Staging Whiteness is a work of great ambition and reach, providing at once an apt introduction to the critical study of whiteness and an arresting application of such study to Anglo-American theorists and theater makers over the last century and more. --David Roediger, Babcock Professor of History and African American Studies, University of Illinois

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Mary Brewer is a Senior Lecturer in the School of English and Performance Studies at De Montfort University in the U.K. She is the author of Race, Sex and Gender in Contemporary Women's Theatre (1999) and the editor of Exclusions in Feminist Thought (2002).

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