Gender and Jim Crow Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920

Name: Gender and Jim Crow Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920
Price: 5.7 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780807845967

ISBN-10: 0807845965

ISBN-13: 9780807845967

Edition: 1996

Authors: Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore

List price: $37.50

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

4 new & used from $5.70

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Glenda Gilmore recovers the rich nuances of southern political history by placing black women at its center. She explores the pivotal and interconnected roles played by gender and race in North Carolina politics from the period immediately preceding the disfranchisement of black men in 1900 to the time black and white women gained the vote in 1920.Gender and Jim Crowargues that the ideology of white supremacy embodied in the Jim Crow laws of the turn of the century profoundly reordered society and that within this environment, black women crafted an enduring tradition of political activism. According to Gilmore, a generation of educated African American women emerged in the 1890s to become,…

Book details

List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 9/23/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 410
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



1 Place and Possibility



Race and Womanhood



Race and Manhood



Sex and Violence in Procrustes's Bed



No Middle Ground



Diplomatic Women



Forging Interracial Links



Women and Ballots


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index