Lessons in Black and White: The Racial and Gender Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow *South, 1887--1939

My final two chapters explore ritualistic racial violence as the extreme of racial and gender socialization. The attendance and participation in the mass mob lynchings of African Americans took white children outside of the daily experiences of racism. For white male youths, the community encouraged white boys and adolescents to engage in white masculine behavior by attacking black male bodies. The heavy emphasis on masculinity in these rituals reflects the instability and insecurity of the white male hierarchy. Meanwhile, white girls learned to instigate and direct ritualistic violence, empowering themselves by using the rape-lynch discourse to escape socially imposed roles of ideal womanhood.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

History

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• DuRocher Wilson, Kristina A.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Vernon Burton
• Pleck, Elizabeth H.

• Black Studies

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3198980

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/84671