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8. It's what white supremacist women have been doing for many decades.
Wed Nov 8, 2023, 12:49 PM
Nov 2023

Read the book Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy, by Elizabeth Gillespie McRae. It’s truly eye-opening. Here’s part of the description on Amazon.

“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 explores 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 certificates, deciding on the racial identity of their neighbors, celebrating school choice, canvassing communities for votes, and lobbying elected officials. They instilled beliefs in racial hierarchies in their children, built national networks, and experimented with a color-blind political discourse. Without these mundane, everyday acts, white supremacist politics could not have shaped local, regional, and national politics the way it did or lasted as long as it has.“

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