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

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Stefani, Anne, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Women, White--Political activity--Southern States--History--20th century.
• Women civil rights workers--Southern States--History--20th century.
• Women--Southern States--History--20th century.
• Women political activists--Southern States--History--20th century.
• African Americans--Civil rights--Southern States--History--20th century.
• African Americans--Civil rights.
• History.
• Women political activists.
• Women.
• Women civil rights workers.
• Women, White.
• Political participation.
• Southern States--Social life and customs.
• Southern States.
• Manners and customs.

Physical Description:

xiv, 334 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

• Profiles : two generations, one identity
• Before Brown : southern lady activism
• After Brown, part one : the tactics of respectability
• After Brown, part two : open confrontation
• The 1960s movement : modern abolitionists
• A peculiar brand of feminism.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

• 9780813060767
• 0813060761

OCLC:

889164912