Southern history across the color line
By: Nell Irvin Painter.
Series: Gender & American culture
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Southern States -- Historiography; Southern States -- Race relations; Southern States -- Social conditions
Description: "In this collection, Painter reaches across the color line to examine how race, gender, class, and individual subjectivity shaped the lives of black and white women and men in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century South. Through six essays, she explores such themes as interracial sex, white supremacy, and the physical and psychological violence of slavery by closely examining individuals like white plantation mistress turned feminist Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas and black Communist Hosea Hudson.

Painter defies the usual boundaries of southern history, women's history, and African American history and transcends methodological barriers as well, using insights gleaned from psychology and feminist social science in addition to social, cultural and intellectual history."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-230) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Soul Murder and Slavery:; title: Toward a Fully Loaded Cost Accounting, 5; title: 2. The Journal of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas:; title: A Testament of Wealth, Loss, and Adultery, 40; title: 3. Three Southern Women and Freud:; title: A Non-Exceptionalist Approach to Race, Class,; title: and Gender in the Slave South, 93; title: 4. "Social Equality" and "Rape" in the Fin-de-Siecle South, 12; title: 5. Hosea Hudson:; title: The Life and Times of a Black Communist, 34; title: 6. Sexuality and Power in The Mind of the South, 77.