Southern Horrors

preview-18
  • Southern Horrors Book Detail

  • Author : Crystal N. Feimster
  • Release Date : 2009-11-23
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 344
  • ISBN 13 : 9780674035621
  • File Size : 50,50 MB

Southern Horrors by Crystal N. Feimster PDF Summary

Book Description: Between 1880 and 1930, close to 200 women were murdered by lynch mobs in the American South. Many more were tarred and feathered, burned, whipped, or raped. In this brutal world of white supremacist politics and patriarchy, a world violently divided by race, gender, and class, black and white women defended themselves and challenged the male power brokers. Crystal Feimster breaks new ground in her story of the racial politics of the postbellum South by focusing on the volatile issue of sexual violence. Pairing the lives of two Southern women—Ida B. Wells, who fearlessly branded lynching a white tool of political terror against southern blacks, and Rebecca Latimer Felton, who urged white men to prove their manhood by lynching black men accused of raping white women—Feimster makes visible the ways in which black and white women sought protection and political power in the New South. While Wells was black and Felton was white, both were journalists, temperance women, suffragists, and anti-rape activists. By placing their concerns at the center of southern politics, Feimster illuminates a critical and novel aspect of southern racial and sexual dynamics. Despite being on opposite sides of the lynching question, both Wells and Felton sought protection from sexual violence and political empowerment for women. Southern Horrors provides a startling view into the Jim Crow South where the precarious and subordinate position of women linked black and white anti-rape activists together in fragile political alliances. It is a story that reveals how the complex drama of political power, race, and sex played out in the lives of Southern women.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Southern Horrors books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Southern Horrors

Southern Horrors

File Size : 16,16 MB
Total View : 1112 Views
DOWNLOAD

Between 1880 and 1930, close to 200 women were murdered by lynch mobs in the American South. Many more were tarred and feathered, burned, whipped, or raped. In

Life of a Klansman

Life of a Klansman

File Size : 13,13 MB
Total View : 3780 Views
DOWNLOAD

"A haunting tapestry of interwoven stories that inform us not just about our past but about the resentment-bred demons that are all too present in our society t

The World the Civil War Made

The World the Civil War Made

File Size : 38,38 MB
Total View : 2385 Views
DOWNLOAD

At the close of the Civil War, it was clear that the military conflict that began in South Carolina and was fought largely east of the Mississippi River had cha

Telling Histories

Telling Histories

File Size : 22,22 MB
Total View : 4814 Views
DOWNLOAD

The field of black women's history gained recognition as a legitimate field of study late in the twentieth century. Collecting stories that are both deeply pers

Four Hundred Souls

Four Hundred Souls

File Size : 47,47 MB
Total View : 9060 Views
DOWNLOAD

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the pr