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White Fright: The Sexual Panic at the Heart of America's Racist History (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781541646551)
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xA major new history of the fight for racial equality in America, arguing that fear of black sexuality has undergirded white supremacy from the start.
In White Fright, historian Jane Dailey brilliantly reframes our understanding of the long struggle for African American rights. Those fighting against equality were not motivated only by a sense of innate superiority, as is often supposed, but also by an intense fear of black sexuality. In this urgent investigation, Dailey examines how white anxiety about interracial sex and marriage found expression in some of the most contentious episodes of American history since Reconstruction: in battles over lynching, in the policing of black troops' behavior overseas during World War II, in the violent outbursts following the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education, and in the tragic story of Emmett Till. The question was finally settled -- as a legal matter -- with the Court's definitive 1967 decision in Loving v. Virginia, which declared interracial marriage a "fundamental freedom." Placing sex at the center of our civil rights history, White Fright offers a bold new take on one of the most confounding threads running through American history.
Author: Jane Dailey
ISBN-10: 154164655X
ISBN-13: 9781541646551
Publisher: Basic Books
Language: English
Published: 11/17/2020
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.50d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2020
Library Journal 11/01/2020 pg. 98
In White Fright, historian Jane Dailey brilliantly reframes our understanding of the long struggle for African American rights. Those fighting against equality were not motivated only by a sense of innate superiority, as is often supposed, but also by an intense fear of black sexuality. In this urgent investigation, Dailey examines how white anxiety about interracial sex and marriage found expression in some of the most contentious episodes of American history since Reconstruction: in battles over lynching, in the policing of black troops' behavior overseas during World War II, in the violent outbursts following the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education, and in the tragic story of Emmett Till. The question was finally settled -- as a legal matter -- with the Court's definitive 1967 decision in Loving v. Virginia, which declared interracial marriage a "fundamental freedom." Placing sex at the center of our civil rights history, White Fright offers a bold new take on one of the most confounding threads running through American history.
Author: Jane Dailey
ISBN-10: 154164655X
ISBN-13: 9781541646551
Publisher: Basic Books
Language: English
Published: 11/17/2020
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.50d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2020
Library Journal 11/01/2020 pg. 98
By Jane Dailey
xJane Dailey is an associate professor of history at the University of Chicago. A recipient of fellowships from the American Academy in Berlin and the Guggenheim Foundation, she is also the author and coauthor of several previous books, including Before Jim Crow and Building the American Republic. She lives in Chicago, Illinois.
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