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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
Univ. of North Carolina Press
2009.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Gender and American culture. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31463319*spi |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 407 p. : il |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. [355]-379) e índice. |
| ISBN: | 9780807888568 9781469605715 |
