xxii, 384 pages : 25 cm

Glenda Gilmore explores the pivotal and interconnected roles played by gender and race in North Carolina politics from the period immediately preceding the disfranchisement of black men in 1900 to the time black and white women gained the vote in 1920. Gender and Jim Crow argues that the ideology of white supremacy embodied in the Jim Crow laws of the turn of the century profoundly reordered society and that within this environment, black women crafted an enduring

Tradition of political activism. According to Gilmore, a generation of educated African American women emerged in the 1890s to become, in effect, diplomats to the white community after the disfranchisement of their husbands, brothers, and fathers. Using the lives of African American women to tell the larger story, Gilmore chronicles black women's political strategies, their feminism, and their efforts to forge political ties with white women. Her analysis highlights the

Active role played by women of both races in the political process and in the emergence of southern progressivism. In addition, Gilmore illuminates the manipulation of concepts of gender by white supremacists and how this rhetoric changed once women, black and white, gained the vote

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-373) and index

1. Place and Possibility -- 2. Race and Womanhood -- 3. Race and Manhood -- 4. Sex and Violence in Procrustes's Bed -- 5. No Middle Ground -- 6. Diplomatic Women -- 7. Forging Interracial Links -- 8. Women and Ballots

Self-Renewing 2017

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