Críticas:
'Fosl's account of anti-Communism is sure-footed and matter-of-fact...' - The New York Times Book Review
'Fosl conveys the bravery and uncompromising convictions that made Anne Braden an important figure...' - Library Journal
'Now, Fosl...gives Braden the recognition she rightly deserves. Recommended.' - P.D. Travis, Choice
'Subversive Southerner is an excellent and inspiring read.' - Darryl Lorenzo Wellington, The Progressive
'...excellent biographies based on extensive research...' - Jo Freeman, Women's Review of Books
'When the civil rights struggle engulfed the South, Anne Braden was one of the courageous few who crossed the color line to fight for racial justice. Her history is a proud and fascinating one ... Please read this book.' - Reverend Jesse L Jackson, Sr
'Anne Braden's life as a social activist spans more than half a century, and her story is as instructive as it is inspirational. The old cliché certainly applies here: I could not put this book down, and did not want it to end.' - John Dittmer, Crandall Professor of History, DePaul University and author of Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi
'This book will join a critical debate on the impact of the cold war on the civil rights movement.... As important, it will take its place among the very best of the feminist biographies that have changed the way women imagine—and live—their lives.' - Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Spruill Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
'...Catherine Fosl lays out the searing costs, public and private, to...Anne Braden's family...' - Anniston Star
'...a compelling picture of a person committed to the cause of racial justice.' - David L. Hudson Jr., Nashville Tennessean
Reseña del editor:
Anne McCarty Braden is a southern white woman who made a dramatic break with her native, segregationist culture in the years just following World War II to commit her life to the causes of racial and social justice. One of the few white people - particularly from the South - to join the southern black freedom movement in its nascent years in the 1950s, Braden became a role model and inspiration for the thousands of young white people that joined the mass movement a decade later. Braden stands nearly alone among other women of her race, class, region, and generation in her dedication to social change. Born in 1924, Braden came of age after the women's rights and social reform crusades of the early part of the 20th century, and after the young activist women of the 1960s launched the civil rights, student, and women's liberation movements. Yet Braden's life has intersected on some level with most of the great social movements of her lifetime, and represents a central link that connects the southern protest movements of the 1930s and 1940s to the mass civil rights movement of the 1960s. Unlike many southern reformers of her generation, Braden refused to become an exile from either her region or race, and instead concentrated her activism in the South, especially on awakening the consciences of white southerners. In so doing, she provoked both the admiration and, more often, wrath of her countrymen and women. Fosl not only shares the extraordinary life of Braden with her readers, but also teaches them about the struggles that white southern activists had to face in the segregated, Cold War South.
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