TY - GEN T1 - Shrill hurrahs : women, gender, and racial violence in South Carolina, 1865-1900 A1 - Gillin, Kate Côté LA - English PP - Columbia, South Carolina PB - University of South Carolina Press YR - 2013 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn864141045 AB - "In From Eager Lips Came Shrill Hurrahs, Kate F.C. Gillin presents a new perspective on gender roles and racial violence in South Carolina during Reconstruction and the decades after the 1876 election of Wade Hampton as governor. In the aftermath of the Civil War, southerners struggled to either adapt or resist changes to their way of life. Gillin accurately perceives racial violence as an attempt by white southern men to reassert their masculinity, weakened by the war and emancipation, and as an attempt by white southern women to preserve their antebellum privileges. As she reevaluates relationships between genders, Gillin also explores relations within the female gender. She has demonstrated that white women often exacerbated racial and gender violence alongside men, even when other white women were victims of that violence. Through the nineteenth century, few bridges of sisterhood were built between black and white women. Black women asserted their rights as mothers, wives, and independent free women in the postwar years, while white women often opposed these assertions of black female autonomy. Ironically even black women participated in acts of intimidation and racial violence in an attempt to safeguard their rights. In the turmoil of an era that extinguished slavery and redefined black citizenship, race, not gender, often determined the relationships that black and white women displayed in the defeated South. By canvassing and documenting numerous incidents of racial violence, from lynching of black men to assaults on white women, Gillin proposes a new view of postwar South Carolina. Tensions grew over controversies including the struggle for land and labor, black politicization, the creation of the Ku Klux Klan, the election of 1876, and the rise of lynching. Gillin addresses these issues and more as she focusses on black women's asserted independence and white women's role in racial violence. Despite the white women's reactionary activism, the powerful presence of black women and their bravery in the face of white violence reshaped southern gender roles forever"-- CN - E185.93.S7 G55 2013eb SN - 9781611172928 SN - 1611172926 SN - 1306141818 SN - 9781306141819 SN - 9781611172911 SN - 1611172918 KW - African American women : South Carolina : Social conditions : 19th century. KW - African American women : Violence against : South Carolina : 19th century. KW - Sex role : South Carolina : History : 19th century. KW - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) : Social aspects : South Carolina. KW - South Carolina : Race relations : History : 19th century. KW - African American women : Abuse of : South Carolina : 19th century. KW - Noires américaines : Caroline du Sud : Conditions sociales : 19e siècle. KW - Noires américaines : Violence envers : Caroline du Sud : 19e siècle. KW - Rôle selon le sexe : Caroline du Sud : Histoire : 19e siècle. KW - Caroline du Sud : Relations raciales : Histoire : 19e siècle. KW - HISTORY : United States : State & Local : South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Women's Studies. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Ethnic Studies : African American Studies. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Discrimination & Race Relations. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Minority Studies. KW - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) KW - African American women : Social conditions KW - African American women : Violence against KW - Race relations KW - Sex role KW - Social aspects KW - South Carolina KW - United States KW - 1800-1899 KW - HISTORY / General KW - History ER -