Co-Whites : How and Why White Women 'Betrayed' the Struggle for Racial Equality in the United States.
Title:
Co-Whites : How and Why White Women 'Betrayed' the Struggle for Racial Equality in the United States.
Author:
Aniagolu, Emeka.
ISBN:
9780761853428
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (310 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgment -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 A Brief Literature Review -- 2 Women in Western & Non-Western Societies -- 3 Women in Post-Civil War United States - Reconstruction through Jim Crow -- 4 White Women & African American Women: Friends or Foes? -- 5 White Women/African American Women & the Two Wars -- 6 White Women & the Civil Rights Movement -- 7 White Women & Affirmative Action -- 8 Affirmative Action & the Myth of "Reverse Discrimination" -- 9 White Men & the Feminist/Women's Liberation Movement -- 10 White Women & Racism in the United States -- 11 White Women & the Socialization of White Children -- 12 White Women & the Socialization of African American Children -- 13 The End of White Supremacy -- Epilogue -- End Notes -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Aniagolu examines the dynamics of race and gender in the history of the United States, concluding that white American women collaborated with white American men as 'Co-Whites' or co-partners in the management and maintenance of white supremacy in the United States.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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