Elizabeth Gillespie Mcrae

Mothers of Massive Resistance

White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy

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Produktbeschreibung

Mothers of Massive Resistance tells the story of how white women shaped racial segregation in the South and postwar conservatism across the nation. Through their work in social welfare, public education, partisan politics, and culture, they created a massive resistance that spanned five decades, and continues to mobilize local communities and survive legislative defeat.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 668g
• ISBN-13: 9780190271718
• ISBN-10: 019027171X
• Artikelnr.: 48251515

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Gillespie McRae is an associate professor of history and director of graduate social science education programs at Western Carolina University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction: Segregation's Constant Gardeners
* Part I: Massive Support for Segregation, 1920-1942
* Ch. 1 The Color Line in Virginia: The Home Grown Production of White
Supremacy
* Ch. 2 Citizenship Education for a Segregated Nation
* Ch. 3 Campaigning for a Jim Crow South
* Ch. 4 Jim Crow Storytelling
* Part II: Massive Resistance to the Black Freedom Struggle
* Ch. 5 Partisan Betrayals: A Bad Woman, Weak White Men, and the End of
a Party
* Ch. 6 Jim Crow's International Enemies and Nationwide Allies
* Ch. 7 Threats Within: Black Southerners, 1954-1956
* Ch. 8 White Women, White Youth, and the Hope of the Nation
* Conclusion: The New National Face of Segregation: Boston Women
Against Busing
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index