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The Silencing of Ruby McCollum: Race, Class, and Gender in the South

by Tammy D. Evans

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This groundbreaking work reads like a murder mystery, only in this case what has been killed is our American integrity and the right of an individual to a fair trial. Evans has finally addressed the pervasive silence that distorts, fragments, and threatens to bury the history of so many southern places and people

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Published: 2006
Genres: Nonfiction, Anthropology, History, Politics and Government, General Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies, Sociology
DDC/MDS: 305.896
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