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Gendered Strife and Confusion The Political Culture of Reconstruction (review) Christopher Waldrep Southern Cultures, Volume 5, Number 2, Summer 1999, pp. 105-107 (Review) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1999.0053 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/423837/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 17:00 GMT from JHU Libraries Gendered Strife and Confusion The Political Culture of Reconstruction By Laura F. Edwards University of Illinois Press, 1 997 378 pp. Cloth, $49.95; Paper, $24.95 Reviewed by Christopher Waldrep of the Eastern Illinois University Department of History, author of Night Riders: Defending Community in the Black Patch, 1890—191j and Roots ofDisorder: Race and CriminalJustice in the American South, ?8??—?88?. Historians have rehabilitated that time before Redemption when African Ameri- cans actively participated in the southern polity. Some of the most exciting schol- arship in this project looks at particular southern places. Kenneth C. Barnes, in Who KilledJohn Clayton? Political Violence and the Emergence ofthe New South, 1861—1893, found a competitive two-party democracy thriving in one Arkansas county. Working in Washington County, Texas, Don Nieman documented a legal system delivering fair and even-handed justice under Republican rule. In the prizewin- ning Gender andJim Crow: Women and the Politics of
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