White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination

by Jess Row

Book Overview

A bold, incisive look at race and reparative writing in American fiction, by the author of Your Face in Mine

White Flights is a meditation on whiteness in American fiction and culture from the end of the civil rights movement to the present. At the heart of the book, Jess Row ties "white flight"--the movement of white Americans into segregated communities, whether in suburbs or newly gentrified downtowns--to white writers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555978320
• ISBN13: 9781555978327
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.2"