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Title Under sentence of death : lynching in the South / edited by W. Fitzhugh Brundage
Published Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [1997]
©1997

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 330 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series HeinOnline history of capital punishment
HeinOnline UNC Press law publications
HeinOnline civil rights and social justice
History of capital punishment
UNC Press law publications
Civil rights and social justice
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Lynching -- Southern States -- History
African Americans -- Crimes against -- History
Racism -- Southern States -- History
TRUE CRIME -- General.
African Americans -- Crimes against
Lynching
Race relations
Racism
Lynchjustiz
Geschichte
Aufsatzsammlung
Lynchen.
Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency.
Social Welfare & Social Work.
Social Sciences.
Lynchage -- États-Unis (sud)
Noirs américains -- Crimes contre -- États-Unis.
Racisme -- États-Unis (sud)
SUBJECT Southern States -- Race relations -- History
Subject Southern States
USA -- Südstaaten
États-Unis (sud) -- Relations interethniques.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Brundage, W. Fitzhugh (William Fitzhugh), 1959- editor.
LC no. 96030204
ISBN 0807866555
9780807866559