One of E Pluribus Unum’s Conversations for an Equitable South. The series continues to bring together some of our country’s great thinkers, activists, advocates, and leaders on the issues of race and equity in the American South. These conversations provide a space to discuss the lasting impact racism has had on people and institutions and, as a result, seek to inspire action with the intention of creating racial equity within our communities.

A key theme to be explored throughout this series is the role that white women play in perpetuating white supremacy and structural racism and the opportunities that exist for this demographic group to participate authentically in change.  Themes to be explored include: the role that white women have played in hate movements throughout history, the barriers that prevent white women from engaging in a deep and sustained way in racial justice, opportunities and challenges for women in leadership, motherhood and social justice work, and how to move towards wholeness with an intersectional approach.

Panel Description:

When we think of the leaders of white supremacist movements, we often picture white men.  But what about the role of white women, both historically and today? How do we talk about the role white women have played throughout the period of American slavery, the Jim Crow era, and in today’s white nationalist movements?  How does the flawed telling of our history and the role white women have played in it impact our expectations of white women today?  What would our country look like if white women deployed their social status, spending power, political influence and collective energy to actively become a part of the solution to dismantle white supremacy?

Featuring authors Stephanie Jones-Rogers, Elizabeth Gillespie McRae (Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy), and Seyward Darby (Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism), this conversation will take a look at our history and challenge our understandings of the power of white women then and now.

This event is free and open to the public. For more information about this conversation go to: https://www.unumfund.org/complicity-of-white-women-in-the-south/

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Time: 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM ET / 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM CT / 1:30-2:30 PM PT