White women, rape, and the power of race in Virginia, 1900-1960 /
For decades, historians have primarily analyzed charges of black-on-white rape in the South through accounts of lynching or manifestly unfair trial proceedings, suggesting that white southerners responded with extralegal violence and sham trials when white women accused black men of assault. Here, L...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill ; London :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2004]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | For decades, historians have primarily analyzed charges of black-on-white rape in the South through accounts of lynching or manifestly unfair trial proceedings, suggesting that white southerners responded with extralegal violence and sham trials when white women accused black men of assault. Here, Lisa Lindquist Dorr challenges this view. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 327 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-318) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780807828410 0807828416 0807863440 9780807863442 |