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The gender of racial politics and violence in America : lynching, prison rape, & the crisis of masculinity / William F. Pinar.

Title
The gender of racial politics and violence in America : lynching, prison rape, & the crisis of masculinity / William F. Pinar.
Author
Pinar, William F.
Publication
New York : P. Lang, c2001.

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Description
xv, 1270 p.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Counterpoints : Studies in the postmodern theory of education ; v. 163
Uniform Title
Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.); v. 163.
Subject
  • African American men > Psychology
  • African Americans > History
  • Homophobia > United States > History
  • Lynching > United States > Psychological aspects
  • Masculinity > United States > History
  • Men, White > United States > Psychology
  • Prison violence > United States > History
  • Racism > United States > History
  • Sex role > United States > History
  • United States > Race relations
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [1179]-1233) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Pt. 1 Lynching -- Strange fruit -- To live or die in dixie -- America's national crime -- Pt. 2 The destabilization of gender and the crisis of white masculinity -- The gendered civil war in the south -- Christian feminism and the destabilization of gender in the late nineteenth century -- The crisis of white masculinity -- Pt. 3 Women and racial politics -- Black protest and the emergence of Ida B. Wells -- White women and the campaign against lynching : Frances Willard, Jane Addams, Jesse Daniel Ames -- White women in the ku klux klan.
  • Pt. 4 Men and racial politics -- The N.A.A.C.P and the struggle for antilynching legilation, 1897-1917 -- The N.A.A.C.P and the struggle for antilynching federal legislation, 1917-1950 -- The communist party/N.A.A.C.P. rivalry in the trials of the Scottsboro nine -- Pt. 5 The culture and racial politics of masculinity -- The gender of violence -- Black men : you don't even know who I am -- White men : I don't even know who I am -- It's a man's world -- Claude Neal's revenge -- Pt. 6 The gender of racial politics and violence in America -- Into each other's arms -- I am a man : the queer character of racial politics and violence in America -- Appendix : The great long national shame : selected incidents of racial violence in the United States.
ISBN
0820451320 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^00030643^
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library