About the Author

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

Reviews

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