Lynching in America: A History in DocumentsChristopher Waldrep NYU Press, 2006 M01 1 - 281 páginas 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. |
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... Mississippi , " 1830 31. William Gilmore Simms , " Guy Rivers , " 1834 32. " The Vicksburg Tragedy , " 1835 . . 33. " The Enemies of the Constitution Discovered , " 1835 34. “ McIntosh Burning , ” 1836 35. Luke Lawless , Charge to the ...
... Mississippi , November 6 , 1871 109 74. William W. Murray to Alphonso Taft , September 25 , 1876 111 75. Grand Jury Indictment of Roland Green Harris and Others , November 1876 .... 112 113 76. Charleston News and Courier , “ Lynch Law ...
... Mississippi , " January 24 , 1956 157. St. John Barrett to Brooks and Kehoe , December 21 , 1959 158. Richard Maxwell Brown , " The Ideology of Vigilantism , " 1969 159. Richard Maxwell Brown , “ Legal and Behavioral Perspectives on ...
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Contenido
Explanations | 1 |
1 The First Lynchers | 26 |
2 Jacksonian America | 41 |
3 Slavery | 61 |
4 How the West Was Won | 81 |
5 Civil War and Reconstruction | 95 |
Schall the Wheel of Race Agitation Be Stopped? | 115 |
7 State Sovereignty and Mob Law | 134 |
8 Western Lynching in an Industrializing Age | 160 |
9 The Limits of Progressive Reform | 183 |
10 Federal Law against Mob Law | 207 |
11 The New Deal | 229 |
12 HighTech Lynchings | 249 |
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About the Editor | 281 |