Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy

by Elizabeth Gillespie McRae

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190088397
• ISBN13: 9780190088392
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"