{"id":22670,"date":"2012-04-25T21:15:21","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T21:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=22670"},"modified":"2014-09-19T20:49:07","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T20:49:07","slug":"%e2%80%9cnearly-white%e2%80%9d-and-clinging-to-%e2%80%9cbits-of-finery%e2%80%9d-jim-crow-logic-brazil-and-evelyn-scotts-escapade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=22670","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNearly White\u201d and Clinging to \u201cBits of Finery\u201d: Jim Crow Logic, Brazil, and Evelyn Scott’s Escapade"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cNearly White\u201d and Clinging to \u201cBits of Finery\u201d: Jim Crow Logic, Brazil, and Evelyn Scott’s Escapade<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Women’s Studies: An inter-disciplinary journal<\/a>
\nVolume 41, Issue 4<\/a>, 2012
\nSpecial Issue: Women and Travel
\nDOI: 10.1080\/00497878.2012.663249<\/a><\/p>\n

Amy Schmidt<\/a><\/strong>, Supervisor of Supplemental Instruction
\nLyon College, Batesville, Arkansas<\/em><\/p>\n

Evelyn Scott’s<\/a> Escapade<\/em> (1923) illustrates both the similarities and the differences between the U.S. South and South American Brazil, highlighting the former’s privileged position as part of the U.S.\u00a0 Through depictions of elite southern American women living in Brazil, Scott’s Escapade<\/em> demonstrates how identity performances are disrupted when the stage for them changes and denaturalizes identity through parody, revealing how performances depend upon material means. However, it also demonstrates how the ideology governing performances remains, unfortunately, quite consistent; while her critiques of American capitalism reveal its international consequences, Scott inadvertently illustrates how Jim Crow<\/a> logic translates rather easily into other regions and countries. Scott’s text demonstrates an impulse towards social justice but simultaneously reveals ambivalence about relinquishing privilege.<\/p>\n

Scott left the South to escape the constraints of Jim Crow logic, which entails more than racial segregation laws; as all identities intersect with one another under a “matrix of domination,” race- cannot be divorced from gender, class, or nationality (see Collins 228). Thus, the gender constraints Scott faced in the U.S. South are just as much a part of Jim Crow logic as racial segregation is. and travel taboos are a notable illustration of how Jim Crow governs both race and gender. When Scott left the South in 1913, elite white women were not allowed to travel without a white male chaperone; despite the energy while southerners spent on…<\/p>\n

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\u201cNearly White\u201d and Clinging to \u201cBits of Finery\u201d: Jim Crow Logic, Brazil, and Evelyn Scott’s Escapade Women’s Studies: An inter-disciplinary journal Volume 41, Issue 4, 2012 Special Issue: Women and Travel DOI: 10.1080\/00497878.2012.663249 Amy Schmidt, Supervisor of Supplemental Instruction Lyon College, Batesville, Arkansas Evelyn Scott’s Escapade (1923) illustrates both the similarities and the differences between […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,8],"tags":[10523,10525,10524],"class_list":["post-22670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","tag-amy-schmidt","tag-evelyn-scott","tag-womens-studies-an-inter-disciplinary-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}