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Ashraf H. A. Rushdy - End Of American Lynching - 9780813552927 - V9780813552927
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End Of American Lynching

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Description for End Of American Lynching Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: BTC; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 331.

The End of American Lynching questions how we think about the dynamics of lynching, what lynchings mean to the society in which they occur, how lynching is defined, and the circumstances that lead to lynching. Ashraf H. A. Rushdy looks at three lynchings over the course of the twentieth century—one in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, in 1911, one in Marion, Indiana, in 1930, and one in Jasper, Texas, in 1998—to see how Americans developed two distinct ways of thinking and talking about this act before and after the 1930s.

One way takes seriously the legal and moral concept of complicity as a way ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813552927
SKU
V9780813552927
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99-15

About Ashraf H. A. Rushdy
  ASHRAF H. A. RUSHDY teaches in the African American studies program and the English department at Wesleyan University. He is the author of The Empty Garden: The Subject of Late Milton, Neo-Slave Narratives: The Social Logic of a Literary Form, and Remembering Generations: Race and Family in Contemporary African American Literature.   ... Read more

Reviews for End Of American Lynching
"Both excellent and unique, The End of American Lynching offers a sophisticated yet clear and methodical approach to the study of lynching...fresh, distinct, and eminently readable."
Leigh Raiford
author of Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare
"Both excellent and unique, The End of American Lynching offers a sophisticated yet clear and methodical approach to the study of lynching...fresh, ... Read more

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