White Women and White Power
Book Review
Hubleer, Angela E.
http://solidarity-us.org/atc/199/white-women-white-power/
Date Written: 2019-03-01
Publisher: Against the Current
Year Published: 2019
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX23495
Review of two books about white supremacy. Especially focused on the role of white women in white power movements.
Abstract:
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Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy
By Elizabeth Gillespie McRae
New York: Oxford University Press, 240 pages, $34.95, hardback.
Bring the War Home:
The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
By Kathleen Belew
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 239 pages, $29.95, hardback.
Recent histories of racism in the 20th century by Elizabeth McRae and Kathleen Belew deepen our understanding of this violence. While they focus on different periods and distinct (though connected and overlapping) movements, both stress that the strategies and ideologies employed by the white supremacist and white power organizations have moved from southern segregationists and the radical right into the mainstream.
Both histories, then, are invaluable to understanding our current political moment. McRae focuses on the 1920s to 1970s, documenting the role of white women in “grassroots resistance to racial equality.” (4)
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