Activists for freedom: ; White women tell stories of their parts in the civil-rights movementBill Drennen
Southern women such as Casey Hayden, Sara Evans, Joan Browning, and Mary King (activists known to scholars of white women's participation in the civil rights movement, yet who did not participate in Memphis's struggle) entered the movement while college students. Radicalized by realizations that...
The classic "liberal" Civil Rights film In the Heat of the Night (1967) negotiates the white male's aggrieved response to his diminished importance in the arena of racial politics and, in particular, to his rejection by black male activists, whose approval many progressive white men explicitly...
Black women’s rights activists have been excluded from the dominant White women’s rights movement. The Black women’s rights activists challenged both racist women's rights activists and sexist civil rights activists. The concept “intersectionality” describes this multifaceted discrimination.[35] ...
What a moving article and one that had me, a white privileged female, looking at my own subtleties of racism and I thank you for that. I am also so saddened by the experiences of racism still existing in this nation. And you know, some of the comments left just proves the point…...
Throwing off the cloak of privilege : white Southern women activists in the Civil Rights Era Throwing off the cloak of privilege : white Southern women activists in the Civil Rights Era edited by Gail S. Murray ; foreword by Stanley Harrold and Ran... GS Murray,S Harrold,RM Miller - ...
“moderate” or not super engaged in politics at all got fed a steaming pile of horseshit. If the Democratic Party and progressive activists/journalists/policy-makers can’t get a real and lasting handle on this war before the next national election, I fear it may be too late to turn this...
(Sastre2016; Johansson2017). Moreover, a number of both non-white and white critics who themselves identify as body positivity activists have pointed out that the dominant norm for the ‘positive’ body still is the white, slender, able-bodied cis-women, and even though the movement often ...
and communication as well as community activists. The stories that they share reveal the history of racism in this country over a fifty year period beginning in the late 1930s and continuing into the early 1980s. The stories are most diverse, and share what it was like growing up White dur...
White ethnicities that were not originally part of the Majority were referred to as “white minorities” by Robertson. Importantly, he distinguished between the “assimilable” and “unassimilable” white minorities. Of assimilable white minorities he wrote that: ...