Making The White Man's West. Whiteness And The Creation Of The American West

JASON E. PIERCE

Publication: University Press of Colorado, 2016, Boulder, Colorado

First edition. 8vo. Black cloth, titles stamped in white on the spine, xxv [blank], 296 pp., preface, acknowledgments, a note on terminology, introduction, illustrated from photographs, bibliography, index. A complicated history of racial diversity in the West's intermountain states ... of how the American West was culturally and politically constructed as a "white" space in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Rather than focusing only on physical expansion, Pierce examines how ideas, stories, and policies shaped who was seen as belonging in the West. Pierce argues that the West didn't just become white through settlement ... it was made white through narratives in newspapers, literature, and popular imagery. These portrayed white settlers as heroic pioneers while minimizing or stereotyping others. As new, unread copy in dust jacket.