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The silencing of Ruby McCollum : race, class, and gender in the South / Tammy Evans ; foreword by Jacqueline Jones Royster ; afterword by Lynn Worsham.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Evans, Tammy, 1959-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Trials (Murder)--Florida--Live Oak.
- Trials (Murder).
- African American women--Civil rights--Southern States--History.
- African American women.
- Southern States--Social conditions.
- Southern States.
- McCollum, Ruby, 1909-1992--Trials, litigation, etc.
- McCollum, Ruby.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This groundbreaking work reads like a murder mystery, only in this case what has been killed is our American integrity and the right of an individual to a fair trial. Evans has finally addressed the pervasive silence that distorts, fragments, and threatens to bury the history of so many southern places and people
- Contents:
- Front Cover; Table of Contents ix; Foreword by Jacqueline Jones Royster xi; Acknowledgments xvii; Introduction xix; 1. ""Words and Doing"": The Politics of Silence in Southern Rhetoric 1; 2. ""It Was All Routine"": The Trial(s) of Ruby McCollum 43; 3. Discourses of Contention: Punctuating McCollum's Sentence(s) of Silence 77; Conclusion 127; Afterword by Lynn Worsham: The Politics 143; Appendix: Zora Neale Hurston's ""My Impressions of the Trial"" 147; Works Cited 161; Index 169
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8130-3712-3
- OCLC:
- 735603181
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