1st Edition
Whiteness as Property Re-Assessing the Convergence of Race and Property in U.S. History
Introduction: Whiteness as Property: Re-assessing the Convergence of Race and Property in U.S. History
Grit Grigoleit-Richter and Felix Krämer
1. Rivers of Injustice: Exploring Oklahoma's Black Floodplain Communities through the Framework of Whiteness as Property
Edith Ritt-Coulter
2. Care Amid Crisis: Marvel Cooke’s Abolitionist Writing on the “Bronx Slave Market”
Anthony Obst
3. Attacking Affirmative Action: William Bennett’s Post-Racial Fiction in Defense of Whiteness as Property
Alexander Obermueller
4. “If He Dies, It is But a Small Loss”: Whiteness as Property and Convict Leasing in Florida, 1875-1925
Carson Eckhard
5. Propertied Bodies: Race, Welfare, and the Carceral State the Texas Way
Grit Grigoleit-Richter
6. Whiteness as Freedom: Paradoxes of Liberty and Slavery in British New York, 1664-1763
Andrew Wells
7. Contested Public Housing Futures: Whiteness as Property in Visions of Socially Mixed Revitalization
Sneha Sumanth
Biography
Grit Grigoleit-Richter teaches American Studies at the University of Passau and is principal investigator of projects examining intersectional perspectives on the U.S. welfare state and immigration. Her research centers on systemic racism, critical race theory, inequality, diaspora, immigration, and racialized minorities in the United States.
Felix Krämer teaches history at the University of Erfurt and supervises a subproject at the Research Centre Structural Change of Property. His research interests include the history of racial capitalism, body history, religion, and the history of debt in the United States from the end of slavery to the present.
