1st Edition
The Other Reconstruction Where Violence and Womanhood Meet in the Writings of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Angelina Weld Grimke, and Nella Larsen
By Ericka M. Miller
Copyright 2000
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 2000. The Other Reconstruction examines groundbreaking works by three African American women whose writings expose the economic, political, and social factors that sustained race violence in post-Reconstruction United States. Their works demonstrate that fixed representations--of race, gender, and class--are a prerequisite of tolerated interracial and intraracial violence. Ida... Read more
Chapter 1 Telling Stories: IdaB. Wells-Barnett’s Southern Horrors, Chapter 2 Before the Rope and Fire: Ida B. Wells-Bamett’s A Red Record and Mob Rule in New Orleans Chapter 3 The Fly in the Buttermilk, or The Legacy of Margaret Garner: Despair, Agency, and Retaliation in Angelina Weld Grimk6’s Birth Control Stories, Chapter 4 Passing As and Passing On: Memory and Mobility from James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man to Nella Larsen’s Quicksand and Passing, Chapter 5 Conclusion: High-Tech Lynchings
Biography
Ericka L. Miller
