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Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan during Reconstruction
Contributor(s): Parsons, Elaine Frantz (Author)

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 ISBN: 1469652137     ISBN-13: 9781469652139
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
OUR PRICE: $37.95  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv)
- History | United States - 19th Century
- Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations
Dewey: 322.420
LCCN: 2015026763
Physical Information: 0.97" H x 9.32" W x 8.59" L (1.29 lbs) 400 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Civil War
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Chronological Period - 1851-1899
- Cultural Region - South
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The first comprehensive examination of the nineteenth-century Ku Klux Klan since the 1970s, Ku-Klux pinpoints the group's rise with startling acuity. Historians have traced the origins of the Klan to Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1866, but the details behind the group's emergence have long remained shadowy. By parsing the earliest descriptions of the Klan, Elaine Frantz Parsons reveals that it was only as reports of the Tennessee Klan's mysterious and menacing activities began circulating in northern newspapers that whites enthusiastically formed their own Klan groups throughout the South. The spread of the Klan was thus intimately connected with the politics and mass media of the North.

Shedding new light on the ideas that motivated the Klan, Parsons explores Klansmen's appropriation of images and language from northern urban forms such as minstrelsy, burlesque, and business culture. While the Klan sought to retain the prewar racial order, the figure of the Ku-Klux became a joint creation of northern popular cultural entrepreneurs and southern whites seeking, perversely and violently, to modernize the South. Innovative and packed with fresh insight, Parsons' book offers the definitive account of the rise of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction.


Contributor Bio(s): Parsons, Elaine Frantz: - Elaine Frantz Parsons is professor of history at Kent State University.
 
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