{"id":61026,"date":"2021-07-08T21:15:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T21:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61026"},"modified":"2021-07-08T21:15:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T21:15:14","slug":"white-fright-the-sexual-panic-at-the-heart-of-americas-racist-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61026","title":{"rendered":"White Fright: The Sexual Panic at the Heart of America’s Racist History"},"content":{"rendered":"

White Fright: The Sexual Panic at the Heart of America’s Racist History<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Basic Books<\/a> (and imprint of Hachette Book Group<\/a>)
\n2020-11-17
\n368 pages
\nHardcover ISBN-13: 9781541646551
\neBook ISBN-13: 9781541646544
\nAudiobook Downloadable ISBN-13: 9781549157721<\/p>\n

Jane Daily<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of History
\nUniversity of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois<\/em><\/p>\n

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A major new history of the fight for racial equality in America<\/a>, arguing that fear of black sexuality has undergirded white supremacy from the start.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In White Fright<\/em>, historian Jane Dailey brilliantly reframes our understanding of the long struggle for African American rights. Those fighting against equality were not motivated only by a sense of innate superiority, as is often supposed, but also by an intense fear of black sexuality.<\/p>\n

In this urgent investigation, Dailey examines how white anxiety about interracial sex and marriage found expression in some of the most contentious episodes of American history since Reconstruction<\/a>: in battles over lynching<\/a>, in the policing of black troops\u2019 behavior overseas during World War II<\/a>, in the violent outbursts following the Supreme Court\u2019s decision in Brown v. Board of Education<\/em><\/a>, and in the tragic story of Emmett Till<\/a>. The question was finally settled \u2014 as a legal matter \u2014 with the Court\u2019s definitive 1967 decision in Loving v. Virginia<\/em><\/a>, which declared interracial marriage a \u201cfundamental freedom.\u201d Placing sex at the center of our civil rights history, White Fright<\/em> offers a bold new take on one of the most confounding threads running through American history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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