Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. List of Illustrations xi
4. Preface xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Forgeries of History: The Poor White Study 24
7. 2. The Visual Culture of White Poverty as the History of South Africa and the United States: Repetition, Rediscovery, Playing with Whiteness 40
8. 3. The White Primitive: Whiteness Studies, Embodiment, Invisibility, Property 79
9. 4. The Roots of White Poverty: Cheap, Lazy, Ineffi cient . . . Black 97
10. 5. Origin Stories about Segregationist Philanthropy 116
11. 6. Carnegie in Africa and the Knowledge Politics of Apartheid: Research Agendas not Taken 130
12. 7. “I’ll Give You Something to Cry About”: The Intraracial Violence of Uplift Feminism in the Carnegie Poor White Study Volume, The Mother and Daughter of the Poor Family 143
13. Conclusion: Race Makes Nation 167
14. Acknowledgments 173
15. Appendixes 177
16. Notes 183
17. Selected Bibliography 273
18. Index 293