{"id":62016,"date":"2021-11-02T01:37:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T01:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62016"},"modified":"2021-11-02T01:37:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T01:37:27","slug":"white-purity-black-sexuality-and-their-roles-in-americas-history-of-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62016","title":{"rendered":"White Purity, Black Sexuality, and Their Roles in America\u2019s History of Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-QQRe2M96jw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>White Purity, Black Sexuality, and Their Roles in America\u2019s History of Racism<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCg7fVH7Lrmx5c-65WJKAuYg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center for Brooklyn History<\/a><br \/>\n2020-12-18<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-QQRe2M96jw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In her new book, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">White Fright: The Sexual Panic at the Heart of America\u2019s Racist History<\/a>,\u201d historian <a href=\"https:\/\/history.uchicago.edu\/directory\/jane-dailey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jane Dailey<\/a> places white fear of Black sexuality and interracial sex at the center of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">America\u2019s<\/a> history of racism.<\/p>\n<p>Dailey brings into sharp relief how white focus on safeguarding purity fueled centuries of brutality and structural racism. Historian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nellpainter.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nell Painter<\/a> looks at the nineteenth and twentieth century south through an intersecting lens. Her book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/uncpress.org\/book\/9780807853603\/southern-history-across-the-color-line\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Southern History Across the Color Line<\/a>\u201d brings to the surface the many ways in which the lives of southern Blacks and whites were thoroughly entangled. Join these two thinkers as they reflect on the white American psyche, the messy tangles between races in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Southern_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">south<\/a>, and the throughline that brings us from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Death_of_Emmett_Till\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emmett Till<\/a>, to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=415\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Loving v. Virginia<\/em><\/a>, to the racism that continues today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her new book, \u201cWhite Fright: The Sexual Panic at the Heart of America\u2019s Racist History,\u201d historian Jane Dailey places white fear of Black sexuality and interracial sex at the center of America\u2019s history of racism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[459,13743,1467,8,20,842],"tags":[32236,15294,1299,70,1231,2829],"class_list":["post-62016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-interviews","category-law","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-videos","tag-center-for-brooklyn-history","tag-emmett-till","tag-jane-dailey","tag-loving-v-virginia","tag-nell-irvin-painter","tag-nell-painter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62016"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62019,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62016\/revisions\/62019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}