White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900-1960

by Lisa Lindquist Dorr (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2004

  $49.13

  For decades, historians have primarily analyzed charges of black-on-white rape in the South through accounts of lynching or unfair trial proceedings, suggesting that white southerners invariably responded with extralegal violence and sham trials when white women accused black men of assault. In this book the author, Dorr challenges this view.