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There Is a Deep Brooding in Arkansas: The Rape Trials That Sustained Jim Crow and the People Who Fought It, from Thurgood Marshall to Maya Angelou - Rilegato

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Stern, Scott W.

 
9780300273571: There Is a Deep Brooding in Arkansas: The Rape Trials That Sustained Jim Crow and the People Who Fought It, from Thurgood Marshall to Maya Angelou
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ISBN 10: 0300273576 ISBN 13: 9780300273571
Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2025

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A sweeping study of sexual assault trials in the Jim Crow South, detailing the racial and economic inequities of rape law and the resistance of ordinary women
 
In the early years of the twentieth century, Mississippi County, Arkansas, was a brutal and profitable place. Home to starving, landless farmers, the county produced almost two percent of the entire world’s cotton. It was also the site of two rape trials that made national headlines: an accusation that sent two Black men, almost certainly innocent, to death row; and the case of two white men, almost certainly guilty, who were likewise sentenced to death but who would ultimately face a very different fate. Braiding together these stories, Scott W. Stern examines how the Jim Crow legal system relied on selectively prosecuting rape to uphold the racial, gender, and economic hierarchies of the segregated, unequal South. But as much as rape law was a site of oppression, it was also, Stern shows, an arena of fierce resistance.
 
Based on deep archival research, this kaleidoscopic narrative includes new information about the early career of Thurgood Marshall, who called one of the Mississippi County trials “worse than any we have had as yet,” and the anti-rape activism of Maya Angelou, who came of age in Arkansas and whose decision to write about her own sexual assault helped shape a burgeoning movement.

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Scott W. Stern is a writer, scholar, and public interest lawyer. He is a regular contributor to numerous publications and is the author of The Trials of Nina McCall, a New York Times editor’s choice selection and Boston Globe best book of the year. He lives in Oakland, CA.

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Editore
Yale Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2025
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0300273576
ISBN 13 
9780300273571
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
464
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