Suburban anti-integration appeals target white women’s safety fears

Evidence

From outright fabrications to dog whistles about inner cities and crime, Trump raised the bogeyman of a black and brown urban horde invading the safe, crime-free, suburbs. The fear is directed at suburban women. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 498

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to scholarship on the ‘suburban housewife’ as electoral trope and the gender-race dynamics of white flight literature. — connects to: Anti-mosque activism parallels suburban resistance to racialized public housing — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 493; White women’s rights appeals exploited racism against black men — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 422; Anti-Black racial violence coincided with backlash against White women’s new independence — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 472 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• 1990s suburbans rebranded desegregation opposition as color-blind neighborhood protection #corroborates (0.95) — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 109
• White women’s rights appeals exploited racism against black men #corroborates (0.85) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 422
• White savagery is inverted into civilized protection of women #epitomizes (0.78)
• Anti-Black racial violence coincided with backlash against White women’s new independence #expands (0.75) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 472