Elizabeth Gillespie Mcrae

Mothers of Massive Resistance

White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy

• Broschiertes Buch

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: 2. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9780190088392
• ISBN-10: 0190088397
• Artikelnr.: 57829330

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Gillespie McRae is Sossomon Associate Professor of History and director of graduate social science education programs at Western Carolina University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Abbreviations
* Introduction: Segregation's Constant Gardeners
* Part I: Massive Support for Racial Segregation, 1920-1941
* 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, 1942-1974
* Ch. 5 Partisan Betrayals: A Bad Woman, Weak White Men, and the End of
Their 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