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Author:

Stefani, Anne, author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University Press of Florida,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xiv, 334 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Subject:

Women, White--History--Southern States--History--20th century.
Women civil rights workers--Southern States--History--20th century.
Women--Southern States--History--20th century.
Southern States--Social life and customs.
Women political activists--Southern States--History--20th century.
African Americans--History--Southern States--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.

ISBN:

0813060761
9780813060767

OCLC:

(OCoLC)889164912

LCCN:

2015004617

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)