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Lynching in America: A History in Documents

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Description for Lynching in America: A History in Documents Paperback. Editor(s): Waldrep, Christopher. Num Pages: 281 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JKVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 250 x 176 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.

Whether conveyed through newspapers, photographs, or Billie Holliday’s haunting song “Strange Fruit,” lynching has immediate and graphic connotations for all who hear the word. Images of lynching are generally unambiguous: black victims hanging from trees, often surrounded by gawking white mobs. While this picture of lynching tells a distressingly familiar story about mob violence in America, it is not the full story. Lynching in America presents the most comprehensive portrait of lynching to date, demonstrating that while lynching has always been present in American society, it has been anything but one-dimensional.
Ranging from personal correspondence to courtroom transcripts to ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
NYU Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
281
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814793992
SKU
V9780814793992
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99-1

About Christopher Waldrep
Christopher Waldrep is Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Professor of History, San Francisco State University. He is the author of Night Riders: Defending Community in the Black Patch: 1890-1915, Roots of Disorder: Race and Criminal Justice in the American South, 1817-1880, and The Many Faces of Judge Lynch: Extralegal Violence and Punishment in America.

Reviews for Lynching in America: A History in Documents
"A distinct work."
Choice, Recommended
"An exemplar documentary history....While lynching might seem to be a tarnished relic of an unfortunate earlier part of history, Waldreps sobering texts remind us of the timelessness of unrestrained power of community-based extra-legal violence."
Louisiana History
";Christopher Waldrep has examined in depth a history we prefer to ignore-a not so distant ... Read more

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