Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan during Reconstruction

The first comprehensive examination of the nineteenth-century Ku Klux Klan since the 1970s, Ku-Klux pinpoints the group's...
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Author: Elaine Frantz Parsons
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Language: English
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Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan during Reconstruction by Parsons, Elaine Frantz

Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan during Reconstruction

$135.73

Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan during Reconstruction

$135.73
Author: Elaine Frantz Parsons
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.



Author: Elaine Frantz Parsons
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 02/01/2019
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.29lbs
Size: 8.59h x 9.32w x 0.97d
ISBN: 9781469652139

About the Author
Parsons, Elaine Frantz: - Elaine Frantz Parsons is professor of history at Kent State University.

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