Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan during ReconstructionUNC Press Books, 9 nov 2015 - 400 páginas The first comprehensive examination of the nineteenth-century Ku Klux Klan since the 1970s, Ku-Klux pinpoints the group's rise with startling acuity. Historians have traced the origins of the Klan to Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1866, but the details behind the group's emergence have long remained shadowy. By parsing the earliest descriptions of the Klan, Elaine Frantz Parsons reveals that it was only as reports of the Tennessee Klan's mysterious and menacing activities began circulating in northern newspapers that whites enthusiastically formed their own Klan groups throughout the South. The spread of the Klan was thus intimately connected with the politics and mass media of the North. Shedding new light on the ideas that motivated the Klan, Parsons explores Klansmen's appropriation of images and language from northern urban forms such as minstrelsy, burlesque, and business culture. While the Klan sought to retain the prewar racial order, the figure of the Ku-Klux became a joint creation of northern popular cultural entrepreneurs and southern whites seeking, perversely and violently, to modernize the South. Innovative and packed with fresh insight, Parsons' book offers the definitive account of the rise of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction. |
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KuKlux Attacks Define a New Black and White Manhood | 72 |
KuKlux Attacks Define Southern Public Life | 109 |
The KuKlux in the National Press | 144 |
KuKlux Skepticism and Denial in ReconstructionEra Public Discourse | 181 |
Race and Violence in Union County South Carolina | 215 |
The Union County KuKlux in National Discourse | 264 |
Conclusion | 303 |
Acknowledgments | 309 |
Notes | 315 |
Bibliography | 361 |
Index | 377 |
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Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan During Reconstruction Elaine Frantz Parsons No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2019 |
Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan During Reconstruction Elaine Frantz Parsons No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2015 |
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