Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women's Campaign Against Lynching
Description
This newly updated edition connects the past with the present, using the Clarence Thomas hearings -and their characterization by Thomas as a "high-tech lynching"- to examine the links between white supremacy and the sexual abuse of black women, and the difficulty of forging an antiracist movement against sexual violence.Revolt Against Chivalry is the account of how Jesse Daniel Ames and the antilynching campaign she led fused the causes of social feminism and racial justice in the South during the 1920s and 1930s.The book traces Ames's political path from suffragism to milita...
ISBN(s)
0231040407, 9780231040402
