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Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780807848395)
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xThrough the life of Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847-1918), South Carolina's self-styled agrarian rebel, this book traces the history of white male supremacy and its discontents from the era of plantation slavery to the age of Jim Crow.
As an anti-Reconstruction guerrilla, Democratic activist, South Carolina governor, and U.S. senator, Tillman offered a vision of reform that was proudly white supremacist. In the name of white male militance, productivity, and solidarity, he justified lynching and disfranchised most of his state's black voters. His arguments and accomplishments rested on the premise that only productive and virtuous white men should govern and that federal power could never be trusted. Over the course of his career, Tillman faced down opponents ranging from agrarian radicals to aristocratic conservatives, from woman suffragists to black Republicans. His vision and his voice shaped the understandings of millions and helped create the violent, repressive world of the Jim Crow South.
Friend and foe alike--and generations of historians--interpreted Tillman's physical and rhetorical violence in defense of white supremacy as a matter of racial and gender instinct. This book instead reveals that Tillman's white supremacy was a political program and social argument whose legacies continue to shape American life.
Author: Stephen Kantrowitz
ISBN-10: 0807848395
ISBN-13: 9780807848395
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Language: English
Published: 04/24/2000
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.40d
Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 03/01/2000 pg. 94
New York Times 05/21/2000 pg. 31
New York Times 06/04/2000 pg. 44
Choice 10/01/2000 pg. 394
As an anti-Reconstruction guerrilla, Democratic activist, South Carolina governor, and U.S. senator, Tillman offered a vision of reform that was proudly white supremacist. In the name of white male militance, productivity, and solidarity, he justified lynching and disfranchised most of his state's black voters. His arguments and accomplishments rested on the premise that only productive and virtuous white men should govern and that federal power could never be trusted. Over the course of his career, Tillman faced down opponents ranging from agrarian radicals to aristocratic conservatives, from woman suffragists to black Republicans. His vision and his voice shaped the understandings of millions and helped create the violent, repressive world of the Jim Crow South.
Friend and foe alike--and generations of historians--interpreted Tillman's physical and rhetorical violence in defense of white supremacy as a matter of racial and gender instinct. This book instead reveals that Tillman's white supremacy was a political program and social argument whose legacies continue to shape American life.
Author: Stephen Kantrowitz
ISBN-10: 0807848395
ISBN-13: 9780807848395
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Language: English
Published: 04/24/2000
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.40d
Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 03/01/2000 pg. 94
New York Times 05/21/2000 pg. 31
New York Times 06/04/2000 pg. 44
Choice 10/01/2000 pg. 394
By Stephen Kantrowitz
xStephen Kantrowitz is associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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