Leaping into the fire
Subtitle: women in United States race riots
By: contributors, Julie Carey Nerad [et al.].
Publisher: Georgia State University
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Atlanta, Ga
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
Subjects: Race riots
Other titles: Representations of women in United States race riots; Studies in the literary imagination. v. 40, no. 2.
Notes: "Fall 2007."

Issued as: Studies in the literary imagination, vol. 40, no. 2, Fall 2007.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Leaping into the fire : women in United States race riots / Julie Cary Nerad; title: "Literally devoured" : Washington, DC, 1919 / Delia Mellis; title: Margie Polite, the riot starter : Harlem 1943 / Laurie F. Leach; title: Women in the crowd : gender and the East St. Louis Race Riot of 1917 / Malcolm McLaughlin; title: "They think their fannies are as good as ours" : the 1943 Detroit Riot / J. Shantz; title: "Mister, this is not your fight!" : the 1961 Montgomery Freedom Ride Riots / Derek Charles Catsam; title: Gender, genre, race, and nation : the 1863 New York City Draft Riots / Alice Rutkowski; title: "Atlanta's shame" : W.E.B. Du Bois and Carrie Williams Clifford respond to the Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 / Dolen Perkins-Valdez; title: "A one-woman riot" : Brooklyn 1991 & Los Angeles 1992 / Jacqueline O'Connor.