First published in 1987, this text is based on a series of interviews, letters and articles from the trade press. It uncovers the voices and experiences of workers in the Southern cotton mill industry during the 1920s and 1930s, and offers a significant contribution to American social history.
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 ...
Drawing on the work of scholars and practitioners such as Augusto Boal, Gloria Anzaldua, and Trinh Minh-ha, these essays advocate oral history and oral history-based performance as means to challenge and expand upon traditional ways of transmitting historical knowledge. The contributors' central concerns are performative aspects of oral history ...
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Institute for Southern Studies
Date Published: 1977
Description: Near Very Good. No Jacket. Periodical. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. 120 pp. The cover edges are rubbed, and the fron cover is creased at the upper fore-corner. "The myth of the Southern belle, loose lady, and Aunt Jemima versus the reality of women-headed households, working women, and feminist reformers. " read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Institute for Southern Studies
Date Published: 1977
Description: Very Good. Copy is free of markings in text. There is a small price written on the front cover which is very hard to see, also some minor wear/spotting/staining. An excellent reading copy. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Institute for Southern Studies
Date Published: 1977
Description: Very Good in Wraps jacket. Large issue of softcover journal. Light wear and creasing to covers. 120 pages, b&w photos. Issue devoted to women in the south with contributions by Lee Smith and Alice Walker. read more
Description: Chapel Hill: Institute for Southern Studies, Winter 1977 (Vol. IV, No. 4). Small 4to. Stiff tan glazed pictorial wrappers. 120pp. Illustrations. Very good. Handsome, tight early issue of this quarterly devoted to articles, fiction, poetry and photography concerning the southern U.S. From the library of noted protest poet and fine press printer JOHN BEECHER (1904-80). This particular issue is subtitled "Generations--women in the south. " read more
Edition: Revised
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: COLUMBIA UNIV PR
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780231082839ISBN:0231082835
Description: New. "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. read more
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King cotton & his retainers; financing & marketing the cotton crop of the South, 1800-1925
