Terror in the heart of freedom : citizenship, sexual violence, and the meaning of race in the postemancipation South / Hannah Rosen.

The meaning of race in the antebellum southern United States was anchored in the racial exclusivity of slavery (coded as black) and full citizenship (coded as white as well as male). These traditional definitions of race were radically disrupted after emancipation, when citizenship was granted to al...

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Main Author: Rosen, Hannah (Hannah R.) (Author)
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press, [2009], ©2009.
Series:Gender & American culture.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (407 pages) : illustrations.
Format: Electronic eBook