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Author:

Dailey, Jane Elizabeth, 1963- author.

Title:

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

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Basic Books,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

361 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

Miscegenation--Southern States--History--20th century.
Interracial marriage--Southern States--History--20th century.
African Americans--Public opinion.--Public opinion.
African Americans--Southern States--Social conditions.
Whites--Southern States--Attitudes.
White supremacy movements--United States--History--20th century.
African Americans--History--Southern States--History--20th century.
Civil rights movements--Southern States--History--20th century.
Southern States--Race relations.
Southern States--Social conditions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Angry Saxons -- "We return fighting" -- Racial confusion -- 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 -- "The social gospel of Jesus" -- Death groans from a dying system -- Conclusion: The fall, without a whimper, of an empire.

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.

ISBN:

154164655X
9781541646551 (hardcover)

LCCN:

2020019694

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

KAPF566 -- Keokuk Public Library (Keokuk)