Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy | Chart listen

This week’s list includes Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy, from Elizabeth Gillespie McRae. Press play and stay for every chapter.

Why do white supremacist politics in America remain so powerful? Elizabeth Gillespie McRae argues that the answer lies with white women. Examining racial segregation from 1920s to the 1970s, Mothers of Massive Resistance moves through the grassroots workers who maintained the system of racial segregation and Jim Crow. For decades in rural communities, in university towns, and in New South cities, white women performed myriad duties that upheld white over black: censoring textbooks, denying marriage c

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