Description
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 Lynching, which served through the 1930s as the chief expression of antilynching sentiment in the white South. Revolt Against Chivalry is also a biography of Ames herself: it shows how Ames connected women's opposition to violence with their search for influence and self-definition, thereby leading a revolt against chivalry which was part of both sexual and racial emancipation.Author: Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 09/02/1993
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.16w x 1.06d
ISBN13: 9780231082839
ISBN10: 0231082835
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Women's Studies
- Biography & Autobiography | General
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies
About the Author
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall is Spruill Professor of History at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is also the author of Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World.