Download or read book White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900-1960 written by Lisa Lindquist Dorr and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, historians have primarily analyzed charges of black-on-white rape in the South through accounts of lynching or manifestly unfair trial proceedings, suggesting that white southerners invariably responded with extralegal violence and sham trial