Ethical complications of lynching : Ida B. Wells's interrogation of American terror /

In an increasingly globalized economy, Sims argues that Ida B. Wells's fight against lynching is a viable option to address systemic forms of oppression. More than a century since Wells launched her anti-lynching campaign, an examination of her work questions America's use of lynching as a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sims, Angela D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Black religion, womanist thought, social justice.
Temas:
Wells-Barnett, Ida B., > 1862-1931.
Wells-Barnett, Ida B., > 1862-1931
Wells-Barnett, Ida B.
Lynching > United States > History.
Lynchage > États-Unis > Histoire.
TRUE CRIME > General.
Lynching
Race relations > Moral and ethical aspects
Ethik
Lynchjustiz
Rassismus
United States > Race relations > Moral and ethical aspects.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Aspect moral.
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Identity and Formation: Character Development and the Shaping of a "Crusader for Justice"
  • Black slave family's moral situation in Mississippi during the Civil War
  • Freed-person of color's moral situation during Reconstruction
  • Head of family's response to the 1878 yellow fever epidemic
  • Wells on lynching : an overview
  • Investigating facts
  • Interpreting data
  • Challenging "alleged causes"
  • The issue of race and lynching
  • The social construction of gender and lynching
  • The intersection of economics and lynching
  • Re-orientation : viewing justice in a racially violent world
  • Re-evaluation : demythologizing hegemonic structures
  • Re-interpretation : defining hope from a minority perspective
  • Just act : a mandate to talk about the lynched.

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