The Resource The silencing of Ruby McCollum : race, class, and gender in the South, Tammy Evans ; foreword by Jacqueline Jones Royster ; afterword by Lynn Worsham
The silencing of Ruby McCollum : race, class, and gender in the South, Tammy Evans ; foreword by Jacqueline Jones Royster ; afterword by Lynn Worsham
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The item The silencing of Ruby McCollum : race, class, and gender in the South, Tammy Evans ; foreword by Jacqueline Jones Royster ; afterword by Lynn Worsham represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
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- Summary
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- "The Silencing of Ruby McCollum refutes the carefully constructed public memory of one of the most famous - and underexamined - biracial murders in American history. On August 3, 1952, African American housewife Ruby McCollum drove to the office of Dr. C. LeRoy Adams, beloved white physician in the segregated small town of Live Oak, Florida. With her two young children in tow, McCollum calmly gunned down the doctor during (according to public sentiment) "an argument over a medical bill." Soon, a very different motive emerged, with McCollum alleging horrific mental and physical abuse at Adams's hand
- In reaction to these allegations and an increasingly intrusive media presence, the town quickly cobbled together what would become the public facade of Adams's murder - a more "acceptable" motive for McCollum's actions." "Employing multiple methodologies to achieve her voice - historical research, feminist theory, African American literary criticism, African American history, and investigative journalism - Tammy Evans analyzes the texts surrounding the affair to suggest that an imposed code of silence demands not only the construction of an official story but also the transformation of a community's citizens into agents who will reproduce and perpetuate this version of events, improbable and unlikely though they may be."--BOOK JACKET
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xxxii, 173 pages
- Contents
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- "Words and doing": the politics of silence in southern rhetoric
- "It was all routine": the trial(s) of Ruby McCollum
- Discourses of contention: punctuating McCollum's sentence(s) of silence
- Isbn
- 9780813029733
- Label
- The silencing of Ruby McCollum : race, class, and gender in the South
- Title
- The silencing of Ruby McCollum
- Title remainder
- race, class, and gender in the South
- Statement of responsibility
- Tammy Evans ; foreword by Jacqueline Jones Royster ; afterword by Lynn Worsham
- Subject
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- African American women -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History
- Florida -- Live Oak
- History
- McCollum, Ruby, approximately 1915-
- McCollum, Ruby, approximately 1915- -- Trials, litigation, etc
- Social conditions
- African American women -- Civil rights
- Southern States -- Social conditions
- Trials
- Trials (Murder)
- Trials (Murder) -- Florida | Live Oak
- Southern States
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- "The Silencing of Ruby McCollum refutes the carefully constructed public memory of one of the most famous - and underexamined - biracial murders in American history. On August 3, 1952, African American housewife Ruby McCollum drove to the office of Dr. C. LeRoy Adams, beloved white physician in the segregated small town of Live Oak, Florida. With her two young children in tow, McCollum calmly gunned down the doctor during (according to public sentiment) "an argument over a medical bill." Soon, a very different motive emerged, with McCollum alleging horrific mental and physical abuse at Adams's hand
- In reaction to these allegations and an increasingly intrusive media presence, the town quickly cobbled together what would become the public facade of Adams's murder - a more "acceptable" motive for McCollum's actions." "Employing multiple methodologies to achieve her voice - historical research, feminist theory, African American literary criticism, African American history, and investigative journalism - Tammy Evans analyzes the texts surrounding the affair to suggest that an imposed code of silence demands not only the construction of an official story but also the transformation of a community's citizens into agents who will reproduce and perpetuate this version of events, improbable and unlikely though they may be."--BOOK JACKET
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1959-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Evans, Tammy
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- McCollum, Ruby
- McCollum, Ruby
- Trials (Murder)
- African American women
- African American women
- Social conditions
- Trials
- Trials (Murder)
- Southern States
- Florida
- Southern States
- Label
- The silencing of Ruby McCollum : race, class, and gender in the South, Tammy Evans ; foreword by Jacqueline Jones Royster ; afterword by Lynn Worsham
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-167) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- "Words and doing": the politics of silence in southern rhetoric -- "It was all routine": the trial(s) of Ruby McCollum -- Discourses of contention: punctuating McCollum's sentence(s) of silence
- Control code
- ocm63705874
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xxxii, 173 pages
- Isbn
- 9780813029733
- Lccn
- 2006040361
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Label
- The silencing of Ruby McCollum : race, class, and gender in the South, Tammy Evans ; foreword by Jacqueline Jones Royster ; afterword by Lynn Worsham
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-167) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- "Words and doing": the politics of silence in southern rhetoric -- "It was all routine": the trial(s) of Ruby McCollum -- Discourses of contention: punctuating McCollum's sentence(s) of silence
- Control code
- ocm63705874
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xxxii, 173 pages
- Isbn
- 9780813029733
- Lccn
- 2006040361
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
Subject
- African American women -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History
- Florida -- Live Oak
- History
- McCollum, Ruby, approximately 1915-
- McCollum, Ruby, approximately 1915- -- Trials, litigation, etc
- Social conditions
- African American women -- Civil rights
- Southern States -- Social conditions
- Trials
- Trials (Murder)
- Trials (Murder) -- Florida | Live Oak
- Southern States
Genre
Library Locations
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