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Podcast: NBN Book of the Day
Episode: Rebecca BrĂźckmann, "Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood: White Women, Class, and Segregation" (U Georgia Press, 2021)
Description: Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood: White Women, Class, and Segregation (U Georgia Press, 2021) offers a comparative sociocultural and spatial history of white supremacist women involved in massive resistance. The book focuses on segregationist grassroots activism in Little Rock, Arkansas, New Orleans, Louisiana, and Charleston, South Carolina from the late 1940s to the late 1960s. Dr. Rebecca BrĂźckmann combines theory and detailed case studies to interrogate the âroles, actions, self-understandings, and media representationsâ of these segregationist women.Dr. BrĂźckmann argues that these women â motivated by an everyday culture of white supremacy â created performative spaces for their segregationi...