White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900-1960

by Lisa Lindquist Dorr

Book Overview

For decades, historians have primarily analyzed charges of black-on-white rape in the South through accounts of lynching or manifestly unfair trial proceedings, suggesting that white southerners invariably responded with extralegal violence and sham trials when white women accused black men of assault. Lisa Lindquist Dorr challenges this view with a careful study of legal records, newspapers, and clemency files from early-twentieth-century Virginia...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807855146
• ISBN13: 9780807855140
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"