Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women's Campaign Against Lynching

by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231082835
• ISBN13: 9780231082839
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

insightful!

I used this book to write my senior thesis, and it really helped me with a comprehensive analysis of the social backgrounds of post-civil war (and post-slavery) racism, violence and gender relations. It really emphasizes the link between lynching and the "cult of southern womanhood" neccesary for white southern men to maintain social dominance once slavery ended and women began to desire political independence. Well written and thought provoking!