| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.3

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Canada and the United States

Lisa Lindquist Dorr. White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900–1960. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2004. Pp. viii, 327. Cloth $49.95, paper $19.95.

In this thorough, thoughtful, and sometimes provocative book, Lisa Lindquist Dorr explores the connections among rape, gender, race, and power in Virginia between 1900 and 1960. Rape is an explosive and difficult subject no matter what the context, but Dorr focuses on the adjudication surrounding legally documented instances of black men accused of raping white women in Virginia. Her source base is comprised of 288 cases she accumulated by visiting courthouses throughout the state. Given the uneven and sometimes politicized record-keeping that characterizes court archives, Dorr admits that her sample, although impressive, is not without flaws. Yet she makes the most of her research by closely and carefully examining the cases as a whole and by using solid contextual research and the gripping details of individual cases to illustrate her points and drive her narrative.

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