Bleeding borders : race, gender, and violence in pre-Civil War Kansas / Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oertel, Kristen Tegtmeier, 1969-

Series:

Conflicting worlds

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women, White.

History.

African Americans.

Indians of North America.

Violence.

Sex role.

Race relations.

Slavery--Political aspects.

Slavery.

Social conflict.

Social conditions.

Kansas--History--1854-1861.

Kansas.

Kansas--Social conditions--19th century.

Social conflict--Kansas--History--19th century.

Slavery--Political aspects--Kansas--History--19th century.

Kansas--Race relations--History--19th century.

Sex role--Kansas--History--19th century.

Violence--Kansas--History--19th century.

Indians of North America--Kansas--History--19th century.

African Americans--Kansas--History--19th century.

Women, White--Kansas--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

xi, 198 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2009]

Contents:

1 "The Two were Soon Pronounced One"

Religious, Economic, and Sexual Exchange in Indian Kansas 9

2 Runaways, "Negro Stealers," and "Border Ruffians"

Antislavery and Proslavery Ideologies in Action 33

3 "All Women are Called Bad"

What makes a Woman in Bleeding Kansas? 58

4 "Free Sons" and "Myrmidons"

What makes a Man in Bleeding Kansas? 58

5 "Don't you See Old Buck Coming?"

Miscegenation, Whiteness, and the Crisis of Racial Identity 109.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-194) and index.

ISBN:

9780807133903

0807133906

OCLC:

233029557