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Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy
By McRae, Elizabeth Gillespie
- ISBN
- 9780190271718
- Publisher
- Oxford Univ.
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Starred Review on January 1, 2018 | Social Sciences
In her debut monograph, historian McRae (history, Western Carolina Univ.) reframes white women's mid-20th-century resistance to desegregation in the American South as one chapter in the long history of women's participation in white supremacist politics after Reconstruction. Challenging historical narratives that marginalize white women's political role, McRae argues that women's work was central to the creation and enforcement of Jim Crow policies and practices. She...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
