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Under sentence of death : lynching in the South /

This collection of essays explores "such topics as same-race lynchings, black resistance to white violence, and the political motivations for lynching ... The book raises important questions about Southern history, race relations, and the nature of American violence."--Page 4 of cover.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Brundage, W. Fitzhugh (William Fitzhugh), 1959- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [1997]
Colección:History of capital punishment.
UNC Press law publications.
Civil rights and social justice.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Narrative and event : lynching and historical sociology / Larry J. Griffin, Paula Clark, Joanne C. Sandberg
  • Sociogenesis of lynching / Roberta Senechal de la Roche
  • Most unexampled exhibition of madness and brutality : Judge Lynch in Saline County, Missouri / Thomas G. Dyer
  • Lynching in wartime Carolina : the death of Saxe Joiner / Joan E. Cashin
  • When race didn't matter : black and white mob violence against their own color / E.M. Beck, Stewart E. Tolnay
  • Gender, sexuality, and politics of lynching : the Leo Frank case revisited / Nancy MacLean
  • Lynching and political power in Mississippi and South Carolina / Terence Finnegan
  • North Carolina lynching ballads / Bruce E. Baker
  • By the book : the legal executions of Kentucky blacks / George C. Wright
  • Roar on other side of silence : black resistance and white violence in American south, 1880-1940 / W. Fitzhugh Brundage
  • Unsettled business : Ida B. Wells against lynching, or, how antilynching got its gender / Patricia A. Schechter.