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Dorr examines the varied responses of white Virginians to white women's charges of rape by black men. Dorr shows that segregation did not always hold sway, as the process of adjudicating these crimes reveals contested power relations among whites across class and gender lines.This gracefully written book represents the next generation of scholarship in gender, race, and class. It will change the way historians understand not only rape and lynching, but also segregation, economic change, and the operation of law and politics in the twentieth century South.(Laura F. Edwards, Duke University)"Dorr does not question the power of the rape myth in southern history, but she does show that the myth was far more complex than previously thought." -- "H-SAWH""[This] intricate and provocative work deserves a wide readership among legal historians and others interested in issues of sexual violence, race, and justice." -- "Law and History Review"
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By challenging orthodoxy on a number of levels, [Dorr] opens up an exciting avenue for examination of the ways in which race and gender ideologies work together in U.S. history.--Journal of the History of SexualityThis gracefully written book represents the next generation of scholarship in gender, race, and class. It will change the way historians understand not only rape and lynching, but also segregation, economic change, and the operation of law and politics in the twentieth century South.--Laura F. Edwards, Duke UniversityDoes an excellent job of revealing the complexities of southern life. It is a major contribution to a field that until now has focused exclusively on a few cases . . . and rarely gets beyond the obvious racial tensions.--South Carolina Historical MagazineDorr's study points the way toward a comprehensive study of rape in the South in the twentieth century. . . . Historians engaged in any aspect of that project as well as anyone interested in race, gender, and law more generally must certainly reckon with Dorr's analysis.--Journal of Southern History[A] well-written and thoughtfully researched volume, which will prove useful for readers interested in social history of the twentieth-century South.--Virginia LibrariesDorr does not question the power of the rape myth in southern history, but she does show that the myth was far more complex than previously thought.--H-SAWH[This] intricate and provocative work deserves a wide readership among legal historians and others interested in issues of sexual violence, race, and justice.--Law and History ReviewThis thoughtful, thorough analysis is an informative addition to the history of race relations.--ChoiceDorr deserves high praise for her thorough study. It not only provides original insights but also stirs thought about possible new investigations. In this way, it opens doors for all scholars interested in law and society as they pertain to race, class, and gender.--H-Law
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Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press; New edition edition (March 22, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0807855146
ISBN-13: 978-0807855140
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6.1 x 0.8 x 9.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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3.3 out of 5 stars
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Frankly, I'm flabbergasted by the shallow and inaccurate reviews of this book that have appeared on this site. Dorr does not excuse all black men accused of raping white women. Nor does she commit the "Harper Lee Fallacy." Lee's novel popularized the notion that all black men in the South lived, constantly, under the shadow of lynching. If they even looked at a white woman, they were doomed. While this fear was a cultural truism that held great power in the black community, it simply was not an accurate representation of reality--not every case, every time, (although it did, tragically, occur all too often). But we've known that since Ida B. Wells proved that less than 1/3 of lynchings resulted from charges of rape.Dorr instead provides a vastly more nuanced argument. She PROVES, through fine-grained research in court records and newspapers, that the interactions of black men and white women that resulted in rape trials became important theatrical spectacles that ultimately upheld the culture of segregation. White male legal officials orchestrated trials to calm local tensions in the short term. Often (roughly 75% of the time), convicted black men were later pardoned. These men were not all lynched. They also were not all executed in a "legal lynching." Instead, complex negotiations--that were seldom about justice--determined their fate. At the same time, white female accusers fell under intense scrutiny--their race provided no immediate shield against questions about their morality. And, while the alleged assailant might be convicted, he might also be pardoned and released back into the community to warn other women whose "respectability" placed them beyond the pale of protection.This is an incredibly well-documented book that upends the traditional verities surrounding black-on-white rape. People on both sides of the issue (that black men rape white women regularly/that no black man is crazy enough to rape a white woman) SHOULD find their beliefs challenged.This is a must read for anyone who wants to understand how invidious, pernicious, and unfortunatley durable the culture of segregation was in America during the first two-thirds of the 20th century.
This all to typical account makes the base argument that every single trial between 1900-and 1960 in which a black man was accused of raping a white women was a sham. Full of clichés such as `white mobs' and `lynchings' which were actually the exception and not the rule this book argues that because white men dared to say they were defending `white womanhood' that therefore they were enacting white patriarchy and suppressing blacks who they felt were `inferior'. This argument goes on to further show that the `white patriarchy' tried to enforce a feeling of conflict between civilization and barbarism thereby enflaming racist passions.The end conclusion here is that the trials pitted not just race but also class against each other and that the courtroom eventually gave blacks accused of crimes he right to confront their white accusers. And in essence the question of interracial relationships is raised, turning the white female victims into heroines for daring to have inter-racial relationships during a time of segregation.Yet problems persist in this simplistic and textbook account. The question of white men raping black women is never addressed. Why? Because apparently that subject doesn't fit the traditional argument. This book should have shed light on this all to common phenomenon, one at the heart of Strom Thurmonds own extra-familial relationships. Thus the other side of the coin is never looked at. And furthermore the text never addresses the fact that some of the women actually may have been raped. The text takes it for granted that every single women was lying and that the `racist' white mobs simply assumed victim hood. But perhaps the truth is that many of these women weren't lying and actually were victims of a crime, now glossed over to serve a traditional view of the pre 1960s south.Seth J. Frantzman
The FBI web site had crime statistics on this.35,000 cases of black men raping white women per year.10 cases of white men raping black women per year.In 2009, all that data was taken off line, and now all that remains is hate crimes against blacks data.I wondered why the rape was one way, at a ratio of 350:1.Even if white rapists did not want black women, mistaken identity should account for more than that.Raping in the dark should account for more than that.But I was thinking like a [demand side] male.Asking [the supply side] women about this, I found that black women are extremely hard to rape.Black women living in a high crime ghetto know that they WILL get raped if they walk out that door at night.Just as out of wedlock births have spread from black women to white women, rape prevention awareness is now spreading to white women.White college girls jog early in the morning and never alone.By the time we get the FBI crime data again, the trends may have drastically changed.
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