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Informationen zum Autor Emeka Aniagolu is originally from Nigeria and teaches African and African American history and politics at Ohio Wesleyan University. He has written two works of fiction, three works of historical fiction, and three works of non-fiction. Klappentext Co-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 United States. Well-researched and lucidly written, the work makes intellectually and historically coherent a subject matter often muttered in small circles and that takes the form of scholarly "civil wars" inside "Women's Studies" between white American and African American women scholars and schools of thought. The work grapples with a serious issue in light of the 2008 presidential elections in the United States, offering insightful explanations certain to evoke lively debate in university classrooms, amongst professorial colleagues, and in the general public. Zusammenfassung Aniagolu examines the dynamics of race and gender in the history of the United States! concluding 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 United States. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 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...
