Sexualized racism/gendered violence: outraging the body politic in the Reconstruction South. From: Michigan Law Review | Date: February 1, 2002| Author: Cardyn, Lisa | COPYRIGHT 2002 Michigan Law Review Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

INTRODUCTION

From its establishment in the months following the Civil War by a motley assortment of disgruntled former rebels, the first Ku Klux Klan, like its many vigilante counterparts, employed terror to realize its invidious social and political aspirations. This terror assumed disparate shapes--from the storied nightriding of disguised bands on horseback, to cryptic threats, horrific assaults, and, not infrequently, murder. While students of Reconstruction have con...