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Author Gillin, Kate Côté

Title Shrill hurrahs : women, gender, and racial violence in South Carolina, 1865-1900 / Kate F.C. Gillin
Published Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, 2013

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Contents Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Land, Labor, and Violence -- 2. Black Politics and Violence -- 3. Getting Organized: The Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina -- 4. Sin and Redemption: The Election of 1876 -- 5. Strange Fruit Hanging from the Palmetto Tree: Lynching in South Carolina -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Summary "In From Eager Lips Came Shrill Hurrahs, Kate F.C. Gillin presents a new perspective on gender roles and racial violence in South Carolina during Reconstruction and the decades after the 1876 election of Wade Hampton as governor. In the aftermath of the Civil War, southerners struggled to either adapt or resist changes to their way of life. Gillin accurately perceives racial violence as an attempt by white southern men to reassert their masculinity, weakened by the war and emancipation, and as an attempt by white southern women to preserve their antebellum privileges. As she reevaluates relationships between genders, Gillin also explores relations within the female gender. She has demonstrated that white women often exacerbated racial and gender violence alongside men, even when other white women were victims of that violence. Through the nineteenth century, few bridges of sisterhood were built between black and white women. Black women asserted their rights as mothers, wives, and independent free women in the postwar years, while white women often opposed these assertions of black female autonomy. Ironically even black women participated in acts of intimidation and racial violence in an attempt to safeguard their rights. In the turmoil of an era that extinguished slavery and redefined black citizenship, race, not gender, often determined the relationships that black and white women displayed in the defeated South. By canvassing and documenting numerous incidents of racial violence, from lynching of black men to assaults on white women, Gillin proposes a new view of postwar South Carolina. Tensions grew over controversies including the struggle for land and labor, black politicization, the creation of the Ku Klux Klan, the election of 1876, and the rise of lynching. Gillin addresses these issues and more as she focusses on black women's asserted independence and white women's role in racial violence. Despite the white women's reactionary activism, the powerful presence of black women and their bravery in the face of white violence reshaped southern gender roles forever"-- Provided by publisher
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History
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject African American women -- South Carolina -- Social conditions -- 19th century
African American women -- Violence against -- South Carolina -- 19th century
Sex role -- South Carolina -- History -- 19th century
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Social aspects -- South Carolina
African American women -- Abuse of -- South Carolina -- 19th century
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
African American women -- Social conditions
African American women -- Violence against
Race relations
Sex role
Social aspects
SUBJECT South Carolina -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
Subject South Carolina
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781611172928
1611172926
1306141818
9781306141819