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Deep denial : the persistence of white supremacy in United States history and life /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Billings, David, 1946- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Roselle, NJ : Crandall, Dostie & Douglass Books, Inc., [2016]
Subjects:
Whites > United States > Race identity.
Racism > United States > History.
White supremacy movements > United States.
Civil rights workers > United States > Biography.
Billings, David, > 1946-
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
United States > Race relations > History.
United Methodist Church (U.S.) > Clergy > Biography.
Mississippi > Social life and customs > 20th century.
McComb (Miss.) > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • White supremacy's historical context
  • Creating a white social contract
  • Expanding whiteness
  • The contract proves binding
  • Defending the contract
  • Internalizing white supremacy
  • Renewing the white social contract
  • Post-World War II and the challenge to white supremacy
  • Racial "communist threat" post World War II
  • The 1950s: GI bill, white flight and resistance to integration
  • White fear/white violence
  • Mississippi: model for white resistance
  • Preparing for the civil rights movement
  • Civil rights organizing north and south
  • The "big one": Brown v Board
  • The black community ups the ante
  • Civil rights movement strategy
  • Civil rights leaders
  • exiled, murdered, jailed
  • Ongoing resistance to civil rights
  • White "race traitors" in the civil rights movement
  • Radicalization of the civil rights movement
  • Lessons of the civil rights movement
  • Growing up preaching in the land of "dog whistle politics"
  • Federal response to the movement: the Great Society
  • De-politicizing the civil rights movement
  • Conservative counter strategy to the civil rights movement
  • White mainstream response to the civil rights movement
  • Internalized racial superiority.