White fright: the sexual panic at the heart of America's racist history

Abstract

Introduction: Angry Saxons -- "We return fighting" -- Racial confusion -- The United States of Lyncherdom -- "Nobody is asking for social equality" -- What the Negro wants -- Fighting Hitler and Jim Crow -- The "second front" -- "Will the peace bring racial peace" -- Brotherhood -- White supremacy in peril -- Architects of a better world -- Grappling with Brown -- "The social gospel of Jesus" -- Death groans from a dying system -- Conclusion: The fall, without a whimper, of an empire.