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, White.

Women civil rights workers--Southern States--History--20th century.

Women civil rights workers.

Women--Southern States--History--20th century.

Women.

Women political activists--Southern States--History--20th century.

Women political activists.

African Americans--Civil rights--Southern States--History--20th century.

African Americans.

Southern States--Social life and customs.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, Florida : University Press of Florida, 2015.

Language Note:

English

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 1960's movement: modern abolitionists

A peculiar brand of feminism.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8130-5126-6

0-8130-5525-3

OCLC:

911054809