Ep. 8: The Myths and Martyrs of White Christian Nationalism
In this final episode of Pure White analyses how myths of white women’s innocence are deployed to demonstrate national innocence. The events of January 6, 2020 included several white women who willfully disobeyed the law. When arrested, many claimed innocence despite evidence of their illegal behavior. Ashli Babbitt became well-known as a martyr to the […]
Episode 7: Purity Culture and Welfare Reform
Season 1: Episode 7
Episode 6: True Love Waits and Sexual Accountability
This episode focuses on the organization True Love Waits and its founding as a highly ambitious campaign to transform the diversity of sexual cultures, expressions, and ethics in the US into a singular ethic based on Christian principles. While doing so, the campaign also contributed to the culture of abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention […]
Episode 5: Myths of Sexual Danger
Season 1: Episode 5
Episode 4: White Women and the Lynching Myth
This episode is named after an especially violent time in US history immediately following Reconstruction in the US South. Frequent racial-terror lynchings were justified by what journalist Ida B. Wells called the lynching myth. The myth was rooted in two racialized stereotypes: sexually violent black men and sexually pure white women. When Wells publicized her […]
Episode 3: True Womanhood
Season 1: Episode 3
Episode 1: Prelude to a Reckoning
Season 1: Episode 1
Episode 2: Purity is for the Free
Season 1: Episode 2
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