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Article: Motherhood in Black and White: Race and Sex in American Liberalism, 1930-1965. (Reviews).
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- Journal of Social History
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- March 22, 2002
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Motherhood in Black and White: Race and Sex in American Liberalism, 1930-1965. By Ruth Feldstein (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. ix plus 241 pp. $45.00/cloth $18.95/paperback).
In recent years, social historians have replaced the standard image of the 1950s as a period of conservatism with one that emphasizes resistance, expressed in the civil rights movement and burgeoning discontent with domesticity. Ruth Feldstein's important book builds on this scholarship and moves it in an exciting new direction. At the center of her analysis is a provocative question: why and how liberal ideas about race gained ascendance in an era when conservative ideas about ...