Race, Rape, and Lynching: The Red Record of American Literature, 1890-1912

by Sandra Gunning

In the late nineteenth century, the stereotype of the black male as sexual beast functioned for white supremacists as an externalized symbol of social chaos against which all whites would unite for the purpose of national renewal. The emergence of this stereotype in American culture and literature during and after Reconstruction was related to the growth of white-on-black violence, as white lynch mobs acted in "defense" of white womanhood, the white...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195099907
• ISBN13: 9780195099904
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.5"