Lessons in Black and White: The Racial and Gender Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow *South, 1887--1939
DuRocher Wilson, Kristina A.
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Description
Title
Lessons in Black and White: The Racial and Gender Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow *South, 1887--1939
Author(s)
DuRocher Wilson, Kristina A.
Issue Date
2005
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Vernon Burton
Pleck, Elizabeth H.
Department of Study
History
Discipline
History
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Black Studies
Language
eng
Abstract
My final two chapters explore ritualistic racial violence as the extreme of racial and gender socialization. The attendance and participation in the mass mob lynchings of African Americans took white children outside of the daily experiences of racism. For white male youths, the community encouraged white boys and adolescents to engage in white masculine behavior by attacking black male bodies. The heavy emphasis on masculinity in these rituals reflects the instability and insecurity of the white male hierarchy. Meanwhile, white girls learned to instigate and direct ritualistic violence, empowering themselves by using the rape-lynch discourse to escape socially imposed roles of ideal womanhood.
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