Southern History Across the Color Line

Painter, Nell Irvin

ISBN 10: 0807826928 / ISBN 13: 9780807826928

Edité par Univ of North Carolina Pr (edition First Edition), 2002

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Southern History Across the Color Line
• Éditeur: Univ of North Carolina Pr (edition First Edition)
• Date de parution: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0807826928
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780807826928
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Very Good

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Synopsis

The color line, once all too solid in southern public life, still exists in the study of southern history. As distinguished historian Nell Irvin Painter notes, historians often still write about the South as though people of different races occupied entirely different spheres. In truth, although blacks and whites were expected to remain in their assigned places in the southern social hierarchy throughout the nineteenth and much of the twentieth century, their lives were thoroughly entangled. In this powerful collection, Painter reaches across the color line to examine how race, gender, class, and individual subjectivity shaped the lives of black and white women and men in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century South. Through six essays, she explores such themes as interracial sex, white supremacy, and the physical and psychological violence of slavery, using insights gleaned from psychology and feminist social science as well as social, cultural, and intellectual history. At once pioneering and reflective, the book illustrates both the breadth of Painter's interests and the originality of her intellectual contributions. It will inspire and guide a new generation of historians who take her goal of transcending the color bar as their own.

À propos de l?auteur

NELL IRVIN PAINTER is Edwards Professor of American History at Princeton University. She is author or editor of six previous books, including Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.