White fright : the sexual panic at the heart of America's racist history / Jane Dailey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dailey, Jane Elizabeth, 1963- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Miscegenation (Racist theory)--Southern States--History--20th century.

Miscegenation (Racist theory).

Interracial marriage--Southern States--History--20th century.

Interracial marriage.

African Americans--Sexual behavior--Public opinion.

African Americans.

African Americans--Southern States--Social conditions.

White people--Southern States--Attitudes.

White people.

White supremacy movements--United States--History--20th century.

White supremacy movements.

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

Civil rights movements--Southern States--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

Southern States--Race relations.

Southern States.

Southern States--Social conditions.

African Americans--Civil rights.

African Americans--Social conditions.

Race relations.

Social conditions.

White people--Attitudes.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Informational works.

Physical Description:

v, 361 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Basic Books, 2020.

Summary:

"In White Fright, acclaimed historian Jane Dailey offers a radical reinterpretation of the fight for African American rights, showing how that fight has been closely bound, both in terms of law and in the white imagination, to the question of interracial sex and marriage. White fear of black sexuality not only fueled the systems of exclusion and oppression under Jim Crow, she contends it was also a central factor driving white resistance to the civil rights movement. Sex, love, and marriage were in fact the lynchpin of white supremacist fear and ideology. In the course of this gripping and urgent investigation, Dailey examines how white fears played out in the battles over lynching, in criticisms of black troops' behavior overseas in France and England during WWII, in the violent reactions of whites following the Brown v. Board decision, and in the aftermath of the eventual Loving v. Virginia ruling, which finally declared marriage a "fundamental freedom." Placing sex at the center of civil rights history, White Fright offers a bold and insightful new take on one of the darkest threads running through American history"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction: Origins of white fright

Fighting for justice

Protecting "racial purity"

The United States of Lyncherdom

"Nobody is asking for social equality"

What the Negro wants

Fighting Hitler and Jim Crow

The "second front"

Will the peace bring racial peace?

Brotherhood

White supremacy in peril

Architects of a better world

Grappling with Brown

Breaching the inner shrine

Death groans from a dying system

Conclusion: The fall, without a whimper, of an empire.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Pennsylvania Abolition Society Complimentary Collection.

ISBN:

9781541646551

154164655X

OCLC:

1143643913