Imagining the Heartland: White Supremacy and the American Midwest

by Joshua O. Reno and Britt E. Halvorson

An overdue examination of the Midwest's long influence on nationalism and white supremacy.

Though many associate racism with the regional legacy of the South, it is the Midwest that has upheld some of the nation's most deep-seated convictions about the value of whiteness. From Jefferson's noble farmer to The Wizard of Oz, imagining the Midwest has quietly gone hand-in-hand with imagining whiteness as desirable and virtuous. Since...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520387600
• ISBN13: 9780520387607
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.1"