The silencing of Ruby McCollum: race, class, and gender in the South

This title refutes the carefully constructed public memory of one of the most famous - and under-examined - biracial murders in American history.

Employing multiple methodologies to achieve her voice, Evans analyses 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.