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Popular justice : a history of lynching in America /
Lynching has often been called "America's national crime" that has defined the tradition of extralegal violence in America. Having claimed many thousand victims, "Judge Lynch" holds a firm place in the dark recesses of our national memory. In this book the author explores th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
Ivan R. Dee,
c2011.
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| Colección: | American ways series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The roots of lynching in Colonial and Revolutionary North America
- The rising of lynch law in Antebellum America
- Frontier justice
- Lynching, riots, and political terror in the Civil War years
- "Indescribable barbarism": the lynching of African Americans in the age of Jim Crow
- Popular justice beyond black and white
- The struggle against lynching
- From lynching to hate crime
- Lynching in American memory and culture.