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Lynching in the New South
W. Fitzhugh Brundage
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Description for Lynching in the New South
Paperback. Based on analysis of nearly 600 cases, this volume offers a full appraisal of the complex character of lynching. An original aspect of this work demonstrates the role blacks played in combatting lynching, either by flight, protest, or organized opposition which culminated in the expansion of the NAACP. Series: Blacks in the New World. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 548.
Lynching was a national crime. But it obsessed the South. W. Fitzhugh Brundage's multidisciplinary approach to the complex nature of lynching delves into the such extrajudicial murders in two states: Virginia, the southern state with the fewest lynchings; and Georgia, where 460 lynchings made the state a measure of race relations in the Deep South. Brundage's analysis addresses three central questions: How can we explain variations in lynching over regions and time periods? To what extent was lynching a social ritual that affirmed traditional white values and white supremacy? And, what were the causes of the decline of lynching at ... Read more
Lynching was a national crime. But it obsessed the South. W. Fitzhugh Brundage's multidisciplinary approach to the complex nature of lynching delves into the such extrajudicial murders in two states: Virginia, the southern state with the fewest lynchings; and Georgia, where 460 lynchings made the state a measure of race relations in the Deep South. Brundage's analysis addresses three central questions: How can we explain variations in lynching over regions and time periods? To what extent was lynching a social ritual that affirmed traditional white values and white supremacy? And, what were the causes of the decline of lynching at ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Series
Blacks in the New World
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252063459
SKU
V9780252063459
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About W. Fitzhugh Brundage
W. Fitzhugh Brundage is William Umstead Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina. His books include Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition and The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory.
Reviews for Lynching in the New South
Winner of the Merle Curti Social History Award given by the Organization of American Historians, 1994. "The research is formidable, the analysis sophisticated. Clearly, this is the best work ever written on lynching."
Numan V. Bartley, author of The Rise of Massive Resistance: Race and Politics in the South during the 1950s
Numan V. Bartley, author of The Rise of Massive Resistance: Race and Politics in the South during the 1950s