Terror in the heart of freedom : citizenship, sexual violence, and the meaning of race in the postemancipation South /
The meaning of race in the antebellum southern United States was anchored in the racial exclusivity of slavery (coded as black) and full citizenship (coded as white as well as male). These traditional definitions of race were radically disrupted after emancipation, when citizenship was granted to al...
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2009.
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| סדרה: | Gender & American culture.
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| גישה מקוונת: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807888568_rosen |
| סיכום: | The meaning of race in the antebellum southern United States was anchored in the racial exclusivity of slavery (coded as black) and full citizenship (coded as white as well as male). These traditional definitions of race were radically disrupted after emancipation, when citizenship was granted to all persons born in the United States and suffrage was extended to all men. Hannah Rosen persuasively argues that in this critical moment of Reconstruction, contests over the future meaning of race were often fought on the terrain of gender. Sexual violence--specifically, white-on-black rape--emerged as. |
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| תיאור פיזי: | 1 online resource (407 pages) : illustrations |
| פורמט: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| ביבליוגרפיה: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-379) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780807888568 0807888567 9781469605715 1469605716 9780807832028 0807832022 9780807858820 080785882X |