The Politics of Whiteness (eBook)

Race, Workers, and Culture in the Modern South

Michelle Brattain (Autor)

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2021
320 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23681-0 (ISBN)

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The Politics of Whiteness presents the first sustained analysis of white racial identity among workers in what was the South's largest industry--the textile industry--for much of the twentieth century. Grounding her work in a study of Rome, Georgia, and surrounding Floyd County from the Great Depression to the 1970s, Michelle Brattain paints a richly textured local portrait of how the varied social benefits of whiteness shaped the experience of textile millhands and, as a result, Southern politics. In doing so, she challenges traditional views of Southern politics as dominated by elites and marked by passivity among Southern workers. Brattain uncovers considerable white working-class political influence and activism for decades starting in the 1930s--which, by re-creating and defending Southern institutions grounded in the idea of racial difference, helped pave the way for resistance to the civil rights movement.Structured chronologically, this book revises the current understanding, in the Southern working-class context, of paternalism, the New Deal, the 1934 General Textile Strike, the Second World War, and the Fair Employment Practices Commission. It addresses the vast influence of Eugene Talmadge and his son in twentieth-century Georgia politics, and the emergence of Republican influence in the South. Finally there came the moment when formerly explicit defenses of white supremacy were transformed into an intangible, but still powerful, politics of whiteness. The Politics of Whiteness will interest anyone concerned with the history of American politics, the labor movement, or race in America.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.9.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Politics and Society in Modern America
• Reihe/Serie: Politics and Society in Modern America
• Reihe/Serie: Politics and Society in Modern America
• Zusatzinfo: 1 table, 5 halftones
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: activism • americans • Americans For Democratic Action • Anti-Communism • anti-statism • A. Philip Randolph • Base and superstructure • Brown v. Board of Education • Burgess (title) • carpetbagger • Cash Flow • celanese • centralized government • Civil and Political Rights • Complicity • Constitution • cotton mill • Council of the Indies • Cross-class alliance • C. Vann Woodward • demagogue • Democracy • Democratic liberalism • Denunciation • Economics • Employment • Equal Employment Opportunity Commission • Eugene Talmadge • Expense • george lipsitz • Government • grand jury • gross national product • hegemony • Herman Talmadge • highbrow • Historiography • hosiery • hypocrisy • injunction • Inner Harbor • Institutio Oratoria • Jim Crow laws • Jury Duty • Labour movement • Law and order (politics) • Moral Economy • Motion of no confidence • National Labor Relations Board • National Recovery Administration • negro • Oppression • Order Paper • Pallbearer • paternalism • political alliance • political capital • political climate • Politician • Politics • Populism • primary source • Protest • racial integration • racialism • Racial segregation • Racial segregation in the United States • Racism • Referendum • Religion • Reprieve (organisation) • Republicanism • Resignation • result • Ruler • Self-determination • seniority • Sheriff • shortage • social conservatism • Social Status • Southern Democrats • states' rights • Stump speech (politics) • Suffrage • Superiority (short story) • Supervisor • Tax • The Other Hand • Trade Union • TWOC • United States Congress • Voting • white americans • white people • white privilege • white southerners • white supremacy • Workforce • Working Class
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23681-X / 069123681X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23681-0 / 9780691236810