1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461023903321

Autore

Stefani Anne

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville, Florida : , : University Press of Florida, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8130-5126-6

0-8130-5525-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (350 p.)

Disciplina

320.08207509/04

Soggetti

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

Electronic books.

Southern States Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.