The Fugitive Race

Denying its formative dialogues with minorities the white race Stephen P. Knadler contends has been a fugitive race. While the white question like the Negro question and the woman question a century earlier has garnered considerable critical attention among scholars looking to find new anti-race strategies these investigations need to highlight not just the exclusion of people of color but also examine minority writers' resistance to and disruption of this privileged racial category.<p>Highly original wonderfully detailed and thought provoking says Professor Candace Waid of Knadler's intellectually challenging book.<p>Although excluded people of color looked back in anger laughter and wisdom to challenge the unexamined lie of a self-evident whiteness. Looking at fictional and nonfictional texts written between 1850 and 1984 The Fugitive Race traces a long cultural and literary history of the ways African Americans Asian Americans Jewish Americans Chicanos gay