how and why white women 'betrayed' the struggle for racial equality in the United States
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Aniagolu, Emeka
- Publish Year
- 2011
- Shelfmark
- VS 1A 2011 - B
- Thesaurus
- politieke participatie, witte vrouwen, zwarte vrouwen, Afro-Amerikaanse vrouwen, gelijke behandeling, etniciteit, racisme, mensenrechten, Verenigde Staten, statistiek
- Description
- This publication discusses race and gender politics and traces the role of women in Western and non-Western political systems. The author examines the dynamics of race and gender in the United States, starting from the colonial and antebellum periods, leading up to the American Civil War and Reconstruction, through the Civil Rights era of the 1960s, to the present day. The work explores how white American women, in their search and struggle for gender equality in the United States, related to three principal streams in America's socioeconomic and political history: white supremacy, women of color-especially African American women, and the freedom and civil rights struggle for racial equality.