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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824547703321

Autore

RoseĢn Hannah

Titolo

Terror in the heart of freedom : citizenship, sexual violence, and the meaning of race in the postemancipation South / / Hannah Rosen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2009

ISBN

0-8078-8856-7

1-4696-0571-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (420 pages)

Collana

Gender and American culture

Disciplina

323.1196/073075

323.1196073075

Soggetti

African Americans - Civil rights - Southern States - History - 19th century

African American women - Crimes against - Southern States - History - 19th century

Rape - Southern States - History - 19th century

Rape - Political aspects - Southern States - History - 19th century

Enslaved persons - Emancipation - Social aspects - Southern States

Citizenship - Social aspects - Southern States - History - 19th century

Sex role - Southern States - History - 19th century

Racism - Southern States - History - 19th century

Southern States Race relations History 19th century

Southern States History 1865-1877

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [355]-379) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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--e