Article Title

Historicizing Whiteness and White Supremacy

Authors

Anthony Albey Soliman, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Abstract

From the end of the eighteenth century to the mid twentieth century, demographic changes reformulated the ideal American citizen to be a white landowning American man. My historiographical paper covers the works of four authors, discussing the centrality of race in their works. In my paper, I cover several themes that are present throughout these disparate works, such as the role of space, citizenship, and race on the peripheries of settlement, and the highly mutable nature of whiteness regarding labor and nationality. By critiquing some of the anachronistic tendencies and omissions of contingency by some historians, I display the ways in which historians could create more complete histories centered around whiteness and white supremacy.

Recommended Citation

Soliman, Anthony Albey (2018) "Historicizing Whiteness and White Supremacy," The Forum: Journal of History: Vol. 10: Iss. 1, Article 6.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/forum/vol10/iss1/6