Tag: Jane Dailey

  • In her new book, “White Fright: The Sexual Panic at the Heart of America’s Racist History,” historian Jane Dailey places white fear of Black sexuality and interracial sex at the center of America’s history of racism.

  • This article explores how religion served as a vessel for one particular language crucial to racial segregation in the South: the language of miscegenation. It was through sex that racial segregation in the South moved from being a local social practice to a part of the divine plan for the world. It was thus through…

  • The Age of Jim Crow W. W. Norton & Company October 2008 434 pages 5.4 × 8.2 in Paperback ISBN 978-0-393-92758-0 Jane Dailey, Associate Professor of American History University of Chicago America’s racial history has been marked by both hard-won progress and sudden reversals of fortune. In The Age of Jim Crow, Jane Dailey introduces…