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The chapter addresses the ethnically marked white characters in the novels, which includes Irish, Jewish, and ethnically mixed white people. These figures are pointedly not meant to stand as Everymen for the reader to identify with. Like the African-American characters, they are meant to bolster the wholesomeness of the protagonists.
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Bell, L. (2017). Off-White Crayons: Ethnically Marked White Characters. In: The “Other” In 9/11 Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50844-3_5
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