White Women, Black Men by Martha Hodes

White Women, Black Men by Martha Hodes

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This is a history of a powerful category of illicit sex in America's past: liaisons between southern white women and black men. Martha Hodes explores the complex ways in which white southerners tolerated these relationships, and shows how and why these responses changed with emancipation.

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White Women, Black Men by Martha Hodes

This is a history of a powerful category of illicit sex in America's past: liaisons between southern white women and black men. Martha Hodes explores the complex ways in which white southerners tolerated these relationships, and shows how and why these responses changed with emancipation.
Hodes, Martha: - Martha Hodes, a professor of history at New York University, is the author of White Women, Black Men, which won the Allan Nevins Prize for Literary Distinction. She lives in New York City and Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
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ISBN 13 9780300069709
ISBN 10 0300069707
Title White Women, Black Men
Author Martha Hodes
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Yale University Press
Year published 1997-10-20
Number of pages 348
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