Working Whiteness: Performing And Transgressing Cultural Identity Through Work
Early in Richard Wright's Native Son, we see Bigger and his friend Gus “playing white.” Taking on the role of “J. P. Morgan,” the two young black men give orders and act powerful, thus performing their perceived role of whiteness. This scene is more than...
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University of North Texas
2002
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| Online Access: | https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3121/ |