Unlikely dissenters : white southern women in the fight for racial justice, 1920-1970

• Tác giả: Anne Stefani
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-0813060767
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 320.0820750904 Political science (Politics and government)
• Mô tả vật lý: xiv, 334 pages : , illustrations ; , 25 cm
• Bộ sưu tập: Xã hội, kinh tế, luật
• ID: 349233
• Chủ đề: 1. African Americans--Civil rights--20th century--Southern States; 2. Women--History--20th century--Southern States; 3. Women civil rights workers--History--20th century--Southern States; 4. Women political activists--History--20th century--Southern States; 5. Women, White--Political activity--20th century--Southern States

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-321) and index.

Tóm tắt

In this work, Anne Stefani focuses on a particular group of white southerners--the minority of white women who lived in a white supremacist society but who rejected the segregationist system and contributed to its demise. She argues that the double identity of these white southern women as both "oppressors" and "victims" forced them to confront their native culture, developing a unique form of racial activism through which they rebelled against their own culture while conforming to southern standards of respectability.