How Long to Read White Flight

How Long Does it Take to Read White Flight?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 13 minutes to read White Flight by Eric Strand

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

White Flight analyzes the work of authors who looked to international travel to escape mass society during the high Cold War era, a period of cultural homogenization that lasted from the late 1940s through the early 1960s. After World War II Americans traveled the world in unprecedented numbers, inspiring the sociologist Dean MacCannell to argue that tourists formed an emancipatory class whose world-historical consciousness centered on the creative use of leisure time. Many writers shared this idealism, although they did not try to instantiate McCannell's social holism but rather valorized radically individualistic self-making. The ideology of this new global frontier complicates Edward Said's model of the master-slave colonial binary, as post-WWII American travel narratives are simultaneously postcolonial and imperial. On one hand, writers resisted cultural hegemony and state control, fashioning prototypical models of hybrid selfhood and anticipating various developments in postmodern culture and theory. On the other hand, their vision of freedom was a specifically middle-class vision of liberated professionalism, a creative fusion of work and play that functioned to elide social inequality and marginalize collective struggles against oppression. White Flight argues that writers such as William S. Burroughs and Saul Bellow were therefore complicit with forms of neocolonial exploitation. The dissertation's concluding chapter argues that Richard Wright wrote against frontier libertarianism and the escapism of globalized "white flight," as he imagined a postcolonial resistance movement that would extend middle-class self-empowerment to everyone. As a supporter of the Enlightenment and the work ethic of Protestantism, Wright problematizes our contemporary emphasis on cultural hybridity and the resistance of master narratives, arguing that a firm commitment to progress, education, and universal rationality in fact enables global mobility and cultural in-betweenness.

How long is White Flight?

White Flight by Eric Strand is 247 pages long, and a total of 63,479 words.

This makes it 83% the length of the average book. It also has 78% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read White Flight Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 46 minutes to read White Flight aloud.

What Reading Level is White Flight?

White Flight is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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