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Terror in the heart of freedom : citizenship, sexual violence, and the meaning of race in the postemancipation South / Hannah Rosen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rosén, Hannah.
- Series:
- Gender & American culture.
- Gender and American culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Civil rights--Southern States--History--19th century.
- African Americans.
- African American women--Crimes against--Southern States--History--19th century.
- African American women.
- Rape--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Rape.
- Rape--Political aspects--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--Social aspects--Southern States.
- Enslaved persons.
- Citizenship--Social aspects--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Citizenship.
- Sex role--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Sex role.
- Racism--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Racism.
- Southern States--Race relations--History--19th century.
- Southern States.
- Southern States--History--1865-1877.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (420 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-379) and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908742-4-5
- 979-88-9313-135-2
- 0-8078-8856-7
- 1-4696-0571-6
- OCLC:
- 401393159
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