Abstract
Take Lemons and Make Lemonade: Serial Girls and the Question of Race
Highlights
In “On being white and other lies,” James Baldwin approaches the notion of becoming white
The second aspect is how one might work at undoing this transformation, how one might try to un-become white in order to undo what bell hooks calls an “imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy”
What if the word white had been in the title of the panel? What if I had been invited to a round table of “white female writers of Québec”? Would I have agreed to take part in it? No, I would not have accepted to be identified as a member of this select group of white women
Summary
In “On being white and other lies,” James Baldwin approaches the notion of becoming white. I follow the steps of Baldwin and Peck to see how they refer to and represent white women as the embodiment of white supremacy through the image of the serial girls.
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