{"product_id":"outliving-the-white-lie-james-wiggins-9781496850355","title":"Outliving the White Lie: A Southerner's Historical, Genealogical, and Personal Journey","description":"Part history, part memoir, \u003ci\u003eOutliving the White Lie: A Southerner's Historical, Genealogical, and Personal Journey\u003c\/i\u003e charts conflicting narratives of American and southern identity through a blend of public, family, and deeply personal history. Author James Wiggins, who was raised in rural Mississippi, pairs thorough historical research with his own lived experiences. \u003ci\u003eOutliving the White Lie\u003c\/i\u003e looks squarely at the many untruths regarding the history and legacy of race that have proliferated among white Americans, from the misrepresentations of Black Confederates to the myth of a \"postracial\" America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThough the US was ostensibly established to achieve freedom and shrug off an oppressive English monarchy, this mythology of the United States' founding belies a glaring paradox--that this is a country whose foundation depends entirely on coercion and enslavement. How, then, could generations of decent people, people who valued individual liberty and personal autonomy, coexist within and alongside such a paradox? Historians suggest an answer: that these apparently dissonant points of view were reconciled in antebellum America by white citizens learning \"to live with slavery by learning to live a lie.\" The operative lie throughout American history and the lie underpinning the institution of slavery, they argue, has always been the fallacy of race--deliberately propagated tenets asserting skin color as the preeminent marker of identity and value. Wiggins takes accepted delusions to task in this moving reconciliation of southern living.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Wiggins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496850351\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496850355\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/30\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 298\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d","brand":"James Wiggins","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44616552546559,"sku":"9781496850355","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6a3c1bd3-3d94-4d73-84fb-0572ff0aaffa.jpg?v=1703020968","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/outliving-the-white-lie-james-wiggins-9781496850355","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}