Gendered Strife & Confusion

Gendered Strife & Confusion
Title Gendered Strife & Confusion PDF eBook
Author Laura F. Edwards
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Pages 404
Release 1997
Genre History
ISBN 9780252066009

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Exploring the gendered dimension of political conflicts, Laura Edwards links transformations in private and public life in the era following the Civil War. Ideas about men's and women's roles within households shaped the ways groups of southerners--elite and poor, whites and blacks, Democrats and Republicans--envisioned the public arena and their own places in it. By using those on the margins to define the center, Edwards demonstrates that Reconstruction was a complicated process of conflict and negotiation that lasted long beyond 1877 and involved all southerners and every aspect of life.

Beyond Black and White

Beyond Black and White
Title Beyond Black and White PDF eBook
Author Stephanie Cole
Publisher Texas A&M University Press
Pages 180
Release 2004
Genre History
ISBN 9781585443192

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This work brings up-to-date perspectives to the oversimplification of racial categories and new insight into the complexity of social relationships in these two important regions. It should be of use to those interested in social activism directed toward racial, ethnic, and gender issues.

The People and Their Peace

The People and Their Peace
Title The People and Their Peace PDF eBook
Author Laura F. Edwards
Publisher UNC Press Books
Pages 447
Release 2014-06-30
Genre History
ISBN 1469619857

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In the half-century following the Revolutionary War, the logic of inequality underwent a profound transformation within the southern legal system. Drawing on extensive archival research in North and South Carolina, Laura F. Edwards illuminates those changes by revealing the importance of localized legal practice. Edwards shows that following the Revolution, the intensely local legal system favored maintaining the "peace," a concept intended to protect the social order and its patriarchal hierarchies. Ordinary people, rather than legal professionals and political leaders, were central to its workings. Those without rights--even slaves--had influence within the system because of their positions of subordination, not in spite of them. By the 1830s, however, state leaders had secured support for a more centralized system that excluded people who were not specifically granted individual rights, including women, African Americans, and the poor. Edwards concludes that the emphasis on rights affirmed and restructured existing patriarchal inequalities, giving them new life within state law with implications that affected all Americans. Placing slaves, free blacks, and white women at the center of the story, The People and Their Peace recasts traditional narratives of legal and political change and sheds light on key issues in U.S. history, including the persistence of inequality--particularly slavery--in the face of expanding democracy.

Radical Reform

Radical Reform
Title Radical Reform PDF eBook
Author Deborah Beckel
Publisher University of Virginia Press
Pages 312
Release 2010-12-08
Genre History
ISBN 0813930529

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Radical Reform describes a remarkable chapter in the American pro-democracy movement. It portrays the largely unknown leaders of the interracial Republican Party who struggled for political, civil, and labor rights in North Carolina after the Civil War. In so doing, they paved the way for the victorious coalition that briefly toppled the white supremacist Democratic Party regime in the 1890s. Beckel provides a nuanced assessment of the distinctive coalitions built by black and white Republicans, as they sought to outmaneuver the Democratic Party. She demonstrates how the dynamic political conditions in the state from 1850 to 1900 led reformers of both races to force their traditional society toward a more radical agenda. By examining the evolution of anti-elitist politics and organized labor in North Carolina, Beckel brings a new understanding to party factionalism of the 1870s and 1880s. As racial conditions deteriorated across America in the 1890s, North Carolina Republicans forged a fragile coalition with Populists. While this interracial pro-democracy movement proved triumphant by 1894, it carried the seeds of its ultimate destruction.

Gender and the Southern Body Politic

Gender and the Southern Body Politic
Title Gender and the Southern Body Politic PDF eBook
Author Nancy Bercaw
Publisher Univ. Press of Mississippi
Pages 292
Release 2000
Genre Sex role
ISBN 9781617034008

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The Politics of Kinship

The Politics of Kinship
Title The Politics of Kinship PDF eBook
Author Mark Rifkin
Publisher Duke University Press
Pages 244
Release 2024-01-29
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1478059001

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What if we understood the idea of family as central to representing alternative forms of governance as expressions of racial deviance? In The Politics of Kinship, Mark Rifkin shows how ideologies of family, including notions of kinship, recast Indigenous and other forms of collective self-organization and self-determination as disruptive racial tendencies in need of state containment and intervention. Centering work in Indigenous studies, Rifkin illustrates how conceptions of family and race work together as part of ongoing efforts to regulate, assault, and efface other political orders. The book examines the history of anthropology and its resonances in contemporary queer scholarship, contemporary Indian policy from the 1970s onward, the legal history of family formation and privacy in the United States, and the association of blackness with criminality across US history. In this way, Rifkin seeks to open new possibilities for envisioning what kinds of relations, networks, and formations can and should be seen as governance on lands claimed by the United States.

Freedom's Promise

Freedom's Promise
Title Freedom's Promise PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth Regosin
Publisher University of Virginia Press
Pages 255
Release 2002
Genre History
ISBN 0813920957

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Rogosin (history, St. Lawrence U.) uses the Civil War pension system as a rich source of documentation for enhanced understanding of how ex-slaves made the transition from slavery to freedom. She uses personal histories and pension narratives to show how former slaves negotiated the system, constructing and communicating their familial relationships for the bureaucracy in order to quality for the Union veteran benefits that were their entitlement. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR