Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race

Faced with Eudora Welty's preference for the oblique in literary performances, some have assumed that she was not concerned with issues of race. This collection counters those assumptions as it examines Welty's handling of race, the colour line, and Jim Crow segregation and sheds new light on her views about the patterns, insensitivities, blindness, and atrocities of whiteness.