White women, rape, and the power of race in Virginia, 1900-1960 / Lisa Lindquist Dorr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dorr, Lisa Lindquist.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rape--Virginia--History--20th century.

Rape.

Virginia--Race relations--History--20th century.

Virginia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

White women, rape & the power of race in Virginia, 1900-1960

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For decades, historians have primarily analyzed charges of black-on-white rape in the South through accounts of lynching or manifestly unfair trial proceedings, suggesting that white southerners responded with extralegal violence and sham trials when white women accused black men of assault. Here, Lisa Lindquist Dorr challenges this view.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Messin' White Women, Snake Lyin' Tales: Black-on-White Rape in Virginia; 1. A Deadly Menace to the Very Framework of Society Itself: White Violence and the Legal System; 2. Shadow and Act: White Women's Fears and Black Men's Intentions; 3. Serving the Ends of Justice: Punishment, Protection, and the Power of Whiteness; 4. Not Considered Worthy of the Respect of Decent People: The Color of Character in Black-on-White Rape Cases; 5. Telling Tales: White Women, False Accusations, and the Conundrum of Consent

6. An Altogether New and Different Spirit: African American Strategies of Resistance and Leverage7. Another Negro-Did-It Crime: Interracial Rape after World War II; Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-318) and index.

ISBN:

9798890876614

9780807863442

0807863440

OCLC:

70743382