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



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Autore: Rosen Hannah Visualizza persona
Titolo: Terror in the heart of freedom : citizenship, sexual violence, and the meaning of race in the postemancipation South / / Hannah Rosen Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2009
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (420 pages)
Disciplina: 323.1196/073075
Soggetto topico: 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
Slaves - 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
Soggetto geografico: Southern States Race relations History 19th century
Southern States History 1865-1877
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [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
Titolo autorizzato: Terror in the heart of freedom  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 979-88-9313-135-2
0-8078-8856-7
1-4696-0571-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910824547703321
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Serie: Gender & American culture.