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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Principais autores: Ash, Jennifer, Rosâen, Hannah (Autor)
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:inglês
Publicado em: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009.
coleção:Gender & American culture.
Acesso em linha:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807888568_rosen
Sumário:
  • I: A city of refuge: emancipation in Memphis, 1862-1866
  • City streets and other public spaces
  • A riot and massacre
  • II: A state of mobilization: politics in Arkansas, 1865-1868
  • The capitol and other public spheres == A constitutional convention
  • III: A region of terror: violence in the South, 1865-1876
  • Houses, yards, and other domestic domains
  • Testifying to violence.