The Politics of Whiteness : : Race, Workers, and Culture in the Modern South / / Michelle Brattain.
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 D...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Politics and Society in Modern America ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 1 table, 5 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Prologue: The Politics of Whiteness
- One: Boosterism, Whiteness, and Paternalism in the New South: The Creation of Wage Work
- Two: "Labor's Best Friend": Talmadge, Paternalism, and the 1934 Strike
- Three: "So-Called Fair Employment": World War II and Whiteness
- Four "Still a White Man's Georgia": PAC, Operation Dixie, and the Resurgence of Talmadgism
- Five "Some Romans Have Red Faces' The 1948 Strikes
- Six: Making Friends and Enemies: Political Action in Postwar Georgia
- Seven: The "So-Called 'Civil Rights' Bill" and the Republicanization of Rome
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index