The Politics of Whiteness: Race, Workers, and Culture in the Modern South

The Politics of Whiteness: Race, Workers, and Culture in the Modern South
ISBN-10
0691007314
ISBN-13
9780691007311
Category
History
Pages
301
Language
English
Published
2001
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Author
Michelle Brattain

Description

In doing so, she challenges traditional views of Southern politics as dominated by elites and marked by passivity among Southern workers. Brattain uncovers considerable white working-class political influence and activism for decades starting in the 1930s - which, by re-creating and defending Southern institutions grounded in the idea of racial difference, helped pave the way for resistance to the civil rights movement.".

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