Remembering Racial Progress, Forgetting White Resistance: The Death of Mississippi Senator John C. Stennis and the Consolidation of the Colorblind Consensus.
This article examines Americans' memories of white opposition to the civil rights movement. As an early user of colorblind rhetoric to defend white supremacy, the segregationist John Stennis confounded Americans' expectations of what white racism was supposed to look like. Popular American memory im...
| Publicado en: | History & Memory Vol. 29; no. 1; pp. 134 - 161 |
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