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Revolt Against Chivalry Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women's Campaign Against Lynching

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ISBN-10: 0231082835

ISBN-13: 9780231082839

Edition: 2nd (Revised)

Authors: Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

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This newly updated edition connects the past with the present, using the Clarence Thomas hearings -and their characterization by Thomas as a "high-tech lynching"- to examine the links between white supremacy and the sexual abuse of black women, and the difficulty of forging an antiracist movement against sexual violence. Revolt Against Chivalry is the account of how Jesse Daniel Ames and the antilynching campaign she led fused the causes of social feminism and racial justice in the South during the 1920s and 1930s. The book traces Ames's political path from suffragism to militant antiracism and provides a detailed description of the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of…    
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Book details

List price: $38.00
Edition: 2nd
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 9/2/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.90" long x 0.11" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English