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Book SynopsisCo-Whites discusses race and gender politics and traces the role of women in Western and non-Western political systems. Aniagolu 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. The United States has irreversibly become a multiracial and multicultural democracy and white supremacy has become untenable; however, Aniagolu concludes that white American women collaborated with white American men as Co-Whites or co-partners in the management and maintenance of white supremacy in the
Trade ReviewCo-Whites raises important questions about the Second Wave of Feminism in the United States including whether its leaders failed at a critical juncture in American history to participate in revolutionary change regarding racial justice. Readers will gain insights into the historic fault lines between the Civil Rights Movement and the Women's Movement, and the position of white women within a society historically dominated by a white patriarchal order. -- Richelle D. Schrock, Ph.D., director, women and gender studies, Ohio Wesleyan University
…highly recommended for change agents who have answered the call of racial equality; 'co-whites' whose status have prevented them from even knowing that there is such a call; and people of other persuasions who will find in this work a language to analyze as well as to express their own oppression… -- Dr. Tanya Tammie Fowler, bio-medical anthropologist, Temple University
Table of ContentsChapter 1 1.Acknowledgment Chapter 2 2.Foreword Chapter 3 3.Introduction Chapter 4 4.A Brief Literature Review Chapter 5 5.Women in Western & Non-Western Societies Chapter 6 6.Women in Post-Civil War United States - Reconstruction through Jim Crow Chapter 7 7.White Women & African American Women: Friends or Foes? Chapter 8 8.White Women/African American Women & the Two Wars Chapter 9 9.White Women & the Civil Rights Movement Chapter 10 10.White Women & Affirmative Action Chapter 11 11.Affirmative Action & the Myth of "Reverse Discrimination" Chapter 12 12.White Men & the Feminist/Women's Liberation Movement Chapter 13 13.White Women & Racism in the United States Chapter 14 14.White Women & the Socialization of White Children Chapter 15 15.White Women & the Socialization of African American Children Chapter 16 16.The End of White Supremacy Chapter 17 17.Epilogue Chapter 18 18.End Notes Chapter 19 19.Appendices Chapter 20 20.Bibliography Chapter 21 21.Index
