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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.

Publication Info. New York : Basic Books, 2020.
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 Avon Free Public Library - New Materials  306.845 DAILEY    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  306.845 DAILEY    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  306.84 DAILEY    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  306.845 DAILEY    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description v, 361 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-343) and index.
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.
Subject Miscegenation -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Interracial marriage -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Sexual behavior -- Public opinion.
African Americans -- Southern States -- Social conditions.
White people -- Southern States -- Attitudes.
White supremacy movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Southern States -- Race relations.
Southern States -- Social conditions.
African Americans -- Civil rights. (OCoLC)fst00799575
African Americans -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00799698
Civil rights movements. (OCoLC)fst00862708
Interracial marriage. (OCoLC)fst00977484
Miscegenation. (OCoLC)fst01023613
Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
White supremacy movements. (OCoLC)fst01174715
White people -- Attitudes. (OCoLC)fst01174817
Southern States. (OCoLC)fst01244550
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9781541646551 (hardcover)
154164655X (hardcover)
9781541646544 (ebook)
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