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Mothers of Massive Resistance : White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy by Elizabeth Gillespie McRae (2020, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100190088397

ISBN-139780190088392

eBay Product ID (ePID)6038302260

Product Key Features

Number of Pages368 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameMothers of Massive Resistance : White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy

Publication Year2020

SubjectDiscrimination & Race Relations, Women in Politics, Women's Studies, United States / General

TypeTextbook

AuthorElizabeth Gillespie Mcrae

Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science, History

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight17.6 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal320.56909730904

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments 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

SynopsisMothers 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., Why do white supremacist politics in America remain so powerful? Elizabeth Gillespie McRae argues that the answer lies with white women. Examining racial segregation from 1920s to the 1970s, Mothers of Massive Resistance explores the grassroots workers who maintained the system of racial segregation and Jim Crow. For decades in rural communities, in university towns, and in New South cities, white women performed myriad duties that upheld white over black: censoring textbooks, denying marriage certificates, deciding on the racial identity of their neighbors, celebrating school choice, canvassing communities for votes, and lobbying elected officials. They instilled beliefs in racial hierarchies in their children, built national networks, and experimented with a color-blind political discourse. Without these mundane, everyday acts, white supremacist politics could not have shaped local, regional, and national politics the way it did or lasted as long as it has.With white women at the center of the story, the rise of postwar conservatism looks very different than the male-dominated narratives of the resistance to Civil Rights. Women like Nell Battle Lewis, Florence Sillers Ogden, Mary Dawson Cain, and Cornelia Dabney Tucker publicized threats to their Jim Crow world through political organizing, private correspondence, and journalism. Their efforts began before World War II and the Brown decision and persisted past the 1964 Civil Rights Act and anti-busing protests. White women's segregationist politics stretched across the nation, overlapping with and shaping the rise of the New Right. Mothers of Massive Resistance reveals the diverse ways white women sustained white supremacist politics and thought well beyond the federal legislation that overturned legal segregation., Why do white supremacist politics in America remain so powerful? Elizabeth Gillespie McRae argues that the answer lies with white women. Examining racial segregation from 1920s to the 1970s, Mothers of Massive Resistance explores the grassroots workers who maintained the system of racial segregation and Jim Crow. For decades in rural communities, in university towns, and in New South cities, white women performed myriad duties that upheld white over black: censoring textbooks, denying marriage certificates, deciding on the racial identity of their neighbors, celebrating school choice, canvassing communities for votes, and lobbying elected officials. They instilled beliefs in racial hierarchies in their children, built national networks, and experimented with a color-blind political discourse. Without these mundane, everyday acts, white supremacist politics could not have shaped local, regional, and national politics the way it did or lasted as long as it has. With white women at the center of the story, the rise of postwar conservatism looks very different than the male-dominated narratives of the resistance to Civil Rights. Women like Nell Battle Lewis, Florence Sillers Ogden, Mary Dawson Cain, and Cornelia Dabney Tucker publicized threats to their Jim Crow world through political organizing, private correspondence, and journalism. Their efforts began before World War II and the Brown decision and persisted past the 1964 Civil Rights Act and anti-busing protests. White women's segregationist politics stretched across the nation, overlapping with and shaping the rise of the New Right. Mothers of Massive Resistance reveals the diverse ways white women sustained white supremacist politics and thought well beyond the federal legislation that overturned legal segregation.

LC Classification NumberE184.A1M354 2020