In his 2000 state of the union address, President Clinton cited studies showing that 99.9 percent of people are genetically the same regardless of race. But W. E. B. Du Bois had noted that the
"problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line." Jennings (English, U. of Tennessee, Knoxville) thus introduces ten critical essays on how individuals and nations are
constructed as white. For example, Argentina has perpetuated the myth of being a monoculturally white nation. Authors also examine the suspect "whiteness" of Jews, non-Northern Europeans,
Appalachians, and white women in colonial lands in history, literature (e.g., Doris Lessing's The Grass is Singing), and Alm籀dovar's films. Annotation 穢2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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