The Silencing of Ruby McCollum: Race, Class, and Gender in the South

The Silencing of Ruby McCollum: Race, Class, and Gender in the South

by Tammy D. Evans
The Silencing of Ruby McCollum: Race, Class, and Gender in the South

The Silencing of Ruby McCollum: Race, Class, and Gender in the South

by Tammy D. Evans

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"This groundbreaking work reads like a murder mystery, only in this case what has been killed is our American integrity and the right of an individual to a fair trial. Evans has finally addressed the pervasive silence that distorts, fragments, and threatens to bury the history of so many southern places and people."--Rebecca Mark, Tulane University The Silencing of Ruby McCollum refutes the carefully constructed public memory of one of the most famous--and under-examined--biracial murders in American history. On August 3, 1952, African American housewife Ruby McCollum drove to the office of Dr. C. LeRoy Adams, beloved white physician in the segregated small town of Live Oak, Florida. With her two young children in tow, McCollum calmly gunned down the doctor during (according to public sentiment) "an argument over a medical bill." Soon, a very different motive emerged, with McCollum alleging horrific mental and physical abuse at Adams's hand. In reaction to these allegations and an increasingly intrusive media presence, the town quickly cobbled together what would become the public facade of Adams's murder--a more "acceptable" motive for McCollum's actions. To ensure this would become the official version of events, McCollum's trial prosecutors voiced multiple objections during her testimony to limit what she was allowed to say. Employing multiple methodologies to achieve her voice--historical research, feminist theory, African American literary criticism, African American history, and investigative journalism--Evans analyzes the texts surrounding the affair to suggest that an imposed code of silence demands not only the construction of an official story but also the transformation of a community's citizens into agents who will reproduce and perpetuate this version of events, improbable and unlikely though they may be. Tammy Evans is an adjunct professor of composition at the University of Miami's Bradenton campus.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780813059792
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Publication date: 09/20/2016
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 208
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Tammy Evans is the founder of Expressions Writing Service, which provides coaching and support for dissertation and thesis students, writing for web-based platforms, and workshops focusing on all aspects of composition and rhetoric.
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