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1 online resource (viii, 271 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South
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Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-262) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: White Supremacy, White Women, and Desegregation -- Massive Resistance in Arkansas, Louisiana, and South Carolina -- The Mothers' League of Central High School -- The Cheerleaders of New Orleans -- Female Segregationists in Charleston -- Conclusion: White Women and Everyday White Supremacy. |
| Summary |
"Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood offers a comparative sociocultural and spatial history of white supremacist women who were active in segregationist grassroots activism in Little Rock, New Orleans, and Charleston from the late 1940s to the late 1960s. Through her examination, Rebecca Brückmann uncovers and evaluates the roles, actions, self-understandings, and media representations of segregationist women in massive resistance in urban and metropolitan settings. Brückmann argues that white women were motivated by an everyday culture of white supremacy, and they created performative spaces for their segregationist agitation in the public sphere to legitimize their actions. While other studies of mass resistance have focused on maternalism, Brückmann shows that women's invocation of motherhood was varied and primarily served as a tactical tool to continuously expand these women's spaces. Through this examination she differentiates the circumstances, tactics, and representations used in the creation of performative spaces by working-class, middle-class, and elite women engaged in massive resistance. Brückmann focuses on the transgressive "street politics" of working-class female activists in Little Rock and New Orleans that contrasted with the more traditional political actions of segregationist, middle-class, and elite women in Charleston, who aligned white supremacist agitation with long-standing experience in conservative women's clubs, including the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Daughters of the American Revolution. Working-class women's groups chose consciously transgressive strategies, including violence, to elicit shock value and create states of emergency to further legitimize their actions and push for white supremacy"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
White supremacy movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
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White supremacy movements. |
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Southern States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Women, White -- Political activity -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
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Women, White. |
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Political participation. |
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Women, White -- Southern States -- Attitudes -- History -- 20th century.
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Women, White -- Southern States -- Social life and customs -- History -- 20th century.
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Manners and customs. |
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Segregation -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
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Segregation. |
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Race discrimination -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
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Race discrimination. |
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Racism -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
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Racism. |
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Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
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Race relations. |
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HISTORY / Women. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Subject |
Racism. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780820358352 0820358355 9780820358628 0820358622 (DLC) 2020025508 (OCoLC)1143624172 |
| ISBN |
9780820358345 (electronic book) |
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0820358347 (electronic book) |
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9780820358352 |
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0820358355 |
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9780820358628 |
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0820358622 |
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