{"id":57252,"date":"2019-01-07T01:45:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T01:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57252"},"modified":"2019-01-07T01:45:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T01:45:27","slug":"white-womens-role-in-school-segregation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57252","title":{"rendered":"White Women\u2019s Role in School Segregation"},"content":{"rendered":"

White Women\u2019s Role in School Segregation<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

JSTOR Daily<\/a>
\n2019-01-04<\/p>\n

Livia Gershon<\/strong><\/a>
\nNashua, New Hampshire<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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White American women have long played significant roles in maintaining racist practices. One sociologist calls the phenomenon \u201csocial mothering.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

In recent years, many public conversations about American racism have focused on white women\u2014their votes for Trump<\/a>, their opposition to school desegregation<\/a>, their calls to the police<\/a> about black people doing innocuous things. As sociologist Joseph O. Jewell<\/a> points out, however, this is nothing new. White women have long played a role in maintaining institutional racism in this country<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jewell focuses on two nineteenth-century incidents involving school segregation. The post-Civil War era<\/a> was a time of changing racial and gender ideologies. White Anglo-Protestant families in U.S.<\/a> cities viewed the growing visibility of upwardly mobile racial outsiders as a threat. Meanwhile, public schools and other institutions serving children were growing, creating new roles for middle-class white women\u2014what Jewell calls \u201csocial mothering.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 1868, a white New Orleans<\/a> engineer and Confederate army<\/a> veteran learned there were nonwhite students attending his daughter\u2019s school. When questioned, the school\u2019s principal, the ironically-named Stephanie Bigot, provided a list of twenty-eight students \u201cknown, or generally reputed to be colored\u201d\u2014presumably girls whose appearances were passably \u201cwhite.\u201d Bigot claimed that she had no knowledge of their racial backgrounds but that there were rumors among the student body that they were not white.<\/p>\n

Jewell writes that the enrollment of racially ambiguous girls posed a particular threat to white New Orleans families. \u201cAllegations of racial passing<\/a> compromised the entire student body\u2019s ability to secure either marriage into a \u2018good\u2019 family or \u2018respectable\u2019 employment,\u201d he writes…<\/p>\n

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