Introduction: Writing whiteness: white authors and hegemonic white masculinity -- 2000 and late?: passé conversations on race for a post-racial nation -- The shame is ours, not theirs: Mark Twain's battle with racialism -- Invented li(v)es: gradations of whiteness in F. Scott Fitzgerald's tribal twenties -- Dispossessing race: abolishing whiteness in Adam Mansbach's angry white boys -- Conclusion: Dreaming of post-racism in a racial wonderland.