[Ads-l] "Politics of Respectability" (Not in OED)

[Shapiro, Fred]

politics of respectability (not in OED)

1993 Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham Righteous Discontent 186

The black Baptist women's opposition to the social structures and symbolic representations of white supremacy may be characterized by the concept of the "politics of respectability."

Fred Shapiro

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