Rape & Race in the Nineteenth-Century South
, by Sommerville, Diane MillerNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780807855607 | 080785560X
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 11/1/2004
Sommerville analyzes black-on-white rape cases of the 19th-century South, challenging the notion that race was the sole agent in shaping white ideology on this issue. She shows that race competed with other forces--especially gender and class--to shape the ways southerners related to each other.