Silencing of Ruby Mccollum Race, Class, and Gender in the South

Name: Silencing of Ruby Mccollum Race, Class, and Gender in the South
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ISBN: 9780813029733

ISBN-10: 0813029732

ISBN-13: 9780813029733

Edition: 2006

Authors: Tammy Evans, Jacqueline Jones Royster, Lynn Worsham

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The Silencing of Ruby McCollum refutes the carefully constructed public memory of one of the most famous--and under-examined--biracial murders in American history. On August 3, 1952, African American housewife Ruby McCollum drove to the office of Dr. C. LeRoy Adams, beloved white physician in the segregated small town of Live Oak, Florida. With her two young children in tow, McCollum calmly gunned down the doctor during (according to public sentiment) "an argument over a medical bill." Soon, a very different motive emerged, with McCollum alleging horrific mental and physical abuse at Adam's hand. In reaction to these allegations and an increasingly intrusive media presence, the town quickly…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Publication date: 9/9/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English

Lynn Worsham is Professor of English at Illinois State University, where she also serves as editor of the Journal of Advanced Composition. She has published numerous books, including Critical Intellectuals on Writing, edited with Gary A. Olson (SUNY Press 2003).



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction



"Words and Doing": The Politics of Silence in Southern Rhetoric



"It Was All Routine": The Trial(s) of Ruby McCollum



Discourses of Contention: Punctuating McCollum's Sentence(s) of Silence


Conclusion


Afterword: The Politics of Anger in the Rhetoric of Silence



Appendix: Zora Neale Hurston's "My Impressions of the Trial"


Works Cited


Index