Outliving the White Lie

James Wiggins is a former instructor of history at Copiah-Lincoln Community College and features columnist for the Natchez Democrat.

Introduction: The Boy Emperor's New-Old Clothes Chapter 1: Race and Me and Mississippi Part 1: The Larger Implications of the Small Debates of the Moment Chapter 2: Our Distinguished Error Emeritus Chapter 3: Becoming Abraham Lincoln; Remaining Robert E. Lee Chapter 4: The Riddle of the Confederate Sphinx Chapter 5: The Black Confederates Who Were, and Those Who Weren't Chapter 6: The Sins of the Fourth-Great-Grandfathers Chapter 7: Asset De-appreciation Part 2: The Importance of Slavery in the Antebellum South (and Beyond) Chapter 8: The "Peculiar" Case of the Antebellum South Chapter 9: Slavery's Capitalism Chapter 10: Slavery's Freedom Part 3: How Slavery Shackled the White South Chapter 11: The Two Souths of Tom and Lewis, Sam and Elijah Chapter 12: The One Percent Chapter 13: The Miseducation of the South Part 4: How the White South Was Persuaded to Shackle Itself Chapter 14: The Invention of the White "Race" Chapter 15: "Racecraft" Chapter 16: The First Families of Racism Chapter 17: The Solidarity Myth Part 5: Constitutional Constructions, Reconstructions, and Deconstructions Chapter 18: Diogenes Finds His Honorably Honest Southern Man Chapter 19: Constitutional Construction and the Reconstruction of American Democracy Chapter 20: The Reconstruction and Deconstruction of American Democracy Chapter 21: When Jim Crow Was Chairman of the School Board Chapter 22: Mac and Black Annie Chapter 23: Affirmative Action for White People Chapter 24: The Second Reconstruction of American Democracy Part 6: The Second Deconstruction of American Democracy Chapter 25: The Great Migration of the Yellow Dogs Chapter 26: The Southern Strategy of the Republican Party Chapter 27: The Republican Strategy of the Southern Party Chapter 28: Trump (and Trumpism) as Mirror Chapter 29: The Third Reconstruction of American Democracy Postscript: Edley, the Mirror, and Me Acknowledgments Bibliography Index

Comprised of poignant, interwoven reflections on family, public history, and personal experience, Outliving the White Lie provides a sweeping history of the costs of slavery and white supremacy to the South and nation." - David R. Roediger, coeditor of The Construction of Whiteness: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Race Formation and the Meaning of a White Identity