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Jeanne Theoharis

“There has been a tendency to personify racism in the figure of a working-class white redneck who dislikes Black people and spouts hateful things, as opposed to a middle-or upper-class white person who might decry such hatefulness but still embraces racially unjust policies.”

Jeanne Theoharis, A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
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A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History by Jeanne Theoharis
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