Lynching in the New South

Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930

AvW. Fitzhugh Brundage

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Engelska, 2022

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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 the end of the 1920s?

A groundbreaking study, Lynching in the New South is a classic portrait of the tradition of violence that poisoned American life.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-08-15
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:400
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9780252053733
Förlag:University of Illinois Press

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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.

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Winner of the Merle Curti Social History Award given by the Organization of American Historians, 1994.— Organization of American Historians

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Acknowledgments / xiIntroduction / 11 Mobs and Ritual / 172 "To Draw the Line": Crimes and Victims / 493 "When White Men Merit Lynching" / 864 The Geography of Lynching in Georgia / 1035 The Geography of Lynching in Virginia / 1406 "We Live in an Age of Lawlessness": The Response to Lynching in Virginia / 1617 The Struggle against Lynching in Georgia, 1880-1910 / 1918 Turning the Tide: Opposition to Lynching in Georgia, 1910-30 / 208Epilogue The Passing of a Tradition / 245Appendixes / 261Notes / 303Index / 369