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Rape in Chicago: Race, Myth, and the Courts, by Dawn Rae Flood. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2012. 235pp. $55.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780252036897.
In Rape in Chicago: Race, Myth, and the Courts, Dawn Rae Flood analyzes the intersection of two highly controversial and extremely sen- sitive topics that often, unfortunately and uncomfortably, overlap-rape and racism. In reviewing over ninety rape trials in Chi- cago from the period of 1936 to 1976, Flood reconstructs individual narratives from trial proceedings, medical history, and news cov- erage in order to examine how both plain- tiffs and defendants dually challenged, and were challenged by, a judicial system histor- ically prejudiced against women and blacks....