{"product_id":"white-fright-jane-dailey-9781541646551","title":"White Fright: The Sexual Panic at the Heart of America's Racist History","description":"\u003cb\u003eA major new history of the fight for racial equality in America, arguing that fear of black sexuality has undergirded white supremacy from the start.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWhite Fright\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eBrown v. Board of Education\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eLoving v. Virginia\u003c\/i\u003e, which declared interracial marriage a \"fundamental freedom.\" Placing sex at the center of our civil rights history, \u003ci\u003eWhite Fright \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a bold new take on one of the most confounding threads running through American history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jane Dailey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 154164655X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781541646551\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Basic Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/17\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2020 pg. 98","brand":"Jane Dailey","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44046176354559,"sku":"9781541646551","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dee71442-51a4-4317-9ce1-5a6632e5ce8c.jpg?v=1684983076","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/white-fright-jane-dailey-9781541646551","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}