Book Cover
E-book
Author Lancaster, Guy, 1976- author.

Title American atrocity : the types of violence in lynching / Guy Lancaster
Published Fayetteville : The University of Arkansas Press, 2021
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000
2021

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 193 pages)
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Summary "Drawing from the fields of history, philosophy, cognitive science, sociology, and literary theory, and quoting chilling contemporary accounts, historian Guy Lancaster argues that the act of lynching encompasses five distinct but overlapping types of violence"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Includes index
Description based on print version record
Subject African Americans -- United States -- History
Violence -- United States -- History
Lynching -- United States -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Violence.
Lynching.
African Americans.
United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books
History.
Form Electronic book
Author Project Muse. distributor.
LC no. 2021010730
ISBN 1610757556
9781610757553