Rape and race in the nineteenth-century South / Diane Miller Sommerville.
Challenging notions of race and sexuality presumed to have originated and flourished in the slave South, Diane Miller Sommerville traces the evolution of white southerners' fears of black rape by examining actual cases of black-on-white rape throughout the nineteenth century.
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill ; London :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2004]
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| Online Access: | HeinOnline Women and the Law (Peggy) Table of contents Publisher description |
| Summary: | Challenging notions of race and sexuality presumed to have originated and flourished in the slave South, Diane Miller Sommerville traces the evolution of white southerners' fears of black rape by examining actual cases of black-on-white rape throughout the nineteenth century. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 411 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0807876259 9780807876251 |