Description: Further DetailsTitle: Lynching in AmericaCondition: NewSubtitle: A History in DocumentsISBN-10: 0814793991EAN: 9780814793992ISBN: 9780814793992Publisher: New York University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 01/01/2006Description: 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 journalistic accounts, Christopher Waldrep has extensively mined an enormous quantity of documents about lynching, which he arranges chronologically with concise introductions. He reveals that lynching has been part of American history since the Revolution, but its victims, perpetrators, causes, and environments have changed over time. From the American Revolution to the expansion of the western frontier, Waldrep shows how communities defended lynching as a way to maintain law and order. Slavery, the Civil War, and especially Reconstruction marked the ascendancy of racialized lynching in the nineteenth century, which has continued to the present day, with the murder of James Byrd in Jasper, Texas, and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s contention that he was lynched by Congress at his confirmation hearings.Since its founding, lynching has permeated American social, political, and cultural life, and no other book documents American lynching with historical texts offering firsthand accounts of lynchings, explanations, excuses, and criticism.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 254mmItem Length: 178mmItem Weight: 522gContributor: Christopher Waldrep (Edited by)Author: Christopher WaldrepGenre: HistoryTopic: Social Sciences, Society & CultureRelease Year: 2006 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
Price: 43.12 USD
Location: NN10 6GL
End Time: 2025-01-16T22:47:09.000Z
Shipping Cost: 0 USD
Product Images
Item Specifics
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money back or replacement (buyer's choice)
Return policy details:
Book Title: Lynching in America
Title: Lynching in America
Subtitle: A History in Documents
ISBN-10: 0814793991
EAN: 9780814793992
ISBN: 9780814793992
Release Date: 01/01/2006
Release Year: 2006
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: Christopher Waldrep (Edited by)
Genre: History
Topic: Society & Culture
Number of Pages: 282 Pages
Publication Name: Lynching in America : a History in Documents
Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Subject: Communication Studies, Discrimination & Race Relations, United States / General
Publication Year: 2006
Item Height: 0.8 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 20.5 Oz
Item Length: 10 in
Subject Area: Social Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
Author: Christopher Waldrep
Item Width: 7 in
Format: Perfect
