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Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South

by Hannah Rosen

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The meaning of race in the antebellum southern United States was anchored in the racial exclusivity of slavery (coded as black) and full citizenship (coded as white as well as male). These traditional definitions of race were radically disrupted after emancipation, when citizenship was granted to all persons born in the United States and suffrage was extended to all men. Hannah Rosen persuasively argues that in this critical moment of Reconstruction, contests over the future meaning of race show more were often fought on the terrain of gender.Sexual violence--specifically, white-on-black rape--e show less

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Hannah Rosen is assistant professor in the Program in American Culture and the Women's Studies Department at the University of Michigan

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W.E.B. Du Bois-John Hope Franklin Award (Winner – 2010)

Berkshire Conference First Book Prize (Winner – History of women, gender, and/or sexuality – 2009)

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Published: 2009
Genres: Nonfiction, Politics and Government, History, General Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies
DDC/MDS: 323.1196
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