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Sheila Smith McKoy, When Whites Riot: Writing Race and Violence in American and South African Cultures.(Book Review)

Publication: Labour/Le Travail
Publication Date: 22-SEP-03
Format: Online - approximately 960 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press 2001)

THIS IS A PROMISING LITTLE BOOK (only 126 pages of actual text) that, in the end, did not fulfill the expectations I had for it. Since readers of this journal would likely bring similar expectations to this book, I want to work a bit with But...

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...them. then I want to emphasize that, disappointed expectations aside, When Whites Riot raises valuable questions that are worth our consideration.

One important caveat for readers of Labour/LeTravail: Smith McKoy is not an historian. She is an English professor, within a department (Vanderbilt University) that emphasizes the somewhat innovative practices of "comparative literature" and "cultural studies." She and her colleagues do not simply study poems, short stories, memoirs, novels, and the like, but they extend their investigations to "texts," which include not only all of the literary products I have already...

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