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8%OFFWalter White - Rope and Faggot: A Biography of Judge Lynch (ND Afro/Amer Intellectual Heritage) - 9780268040079 - V9780268040079
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Rope and Faggot: A Biography of Judge Lynch (ND Afro/Amer Intellectual Heritage)

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Description for Rope and Faggot: A Biography of Judge Lynch (ND Afro/Amer Intellectual Heritage) Paperback. Ironically subtitled "A biography of Judge Lynch" this text looks at the author's first hand experiences of lynching and the cultural and economic foundations for the act. Series: The African-American Intellectual Heritage S. Num Pages: 300 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFFJ; JFSL; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 141 x 22. Weight in Grams: 422.

In 1926, Walter White, assistant secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, broke the story of a horrific lynching in Aiken, South Carolina, in which three African Americans were murdered while more than one thousand spectators watched. Because of his light complexion, blonde hair, and blue eyes, White, an African American, was able to investigate first-hand more than forty lynchings and eight race riots.

Following the lynchings in Aiken, White took a leave of absence from the NAACP and, with help from a Guggenheim grant, spent a year in France writing Rope and Faggot. Ironically subtitled ... Read more

Rope and Faggot debunked the "big lie" that lynching punished black men for raping white women and it provided White with an opportunity to deliver a penetrating critique of the southern culture that nourished this form of blood sport. White marshaled statistics demonstrating that accusations of rape or attempted rape accounted for less than 30 percent of all lynchings. Despite the emphasis on sexual issues in instances of lynching, White insisted that the fury and sadism with which white mobs attacked their victims stemmed primarily from a desire to keep blacks in their place and control the black labor force. Some of the strongest sections of Rope and Faggot deal with White's analysis of the economic and cultural foundations of lynching.

Walter White's powerful study of a shameful practice in modern American history is now back in print, with a new introduction by Kenneth Robert Janken.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Series
The African-American Intellectual Heritage S.
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268040079
SKU
V9780268040079
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About Walter White
WALTER WHITE (1893-1955), author of two novels and three books of nonfiction, was assistant secretary and then secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 1918 until his death. To write Rope and Faggot, White, an African American who had a light complexion, blond hair, and blue eyes, drew upon his experiences as an incognito investigator ... Read more

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