When Whites Riot: Writing Race and Violence in American and South African Cultures

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Illustrations Acknowledgments Contents Introduction: White Riot-Binding American and South African Cultures 1 Riot-Making: Ululation, Resistance, and Reclamation 2 Reading the Riot Act: The Teleology of Charles Chesnutt's The Marrow ofTradition and the Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 3 Rioting in a State of Siege: The Cultural Contexts of Sipho Sepamla's A Ride on the Whirlwind and the Soweto Uprising of 1976 4 Subverting the Silences: Historicizing White Riot in Fiction and Film Epilogue: The Tie That Binds-Los Angeles and Mmabatho, White Riot on the Cusp of a New Millennium Notes Works Cited and Selected Bibliography Filmography Index VII IX Xl 3 11 31 71 93 117 131 149 159 161 ...