Lynching : American Mob Murder in Global Perspective.
Thurston, Robert W.
Lynching : American Mob Murder in Global Perspective. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (442 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I What is Lynching? -- 1 The Processes of Lynching Around the World -- 2 The Roots of Mob Murder: Crises of Legitimacy, Dangers of the Frontier -- 3 Concepts of Crime and Justice in Lynching -- Part II Lynching and Cultural Change: Images of Sex, Savages, and Women -- 4 Race, Civilization, and Sexuality: A Global Conversation -- 5 Reordering Racism: Imperialism and the Challenges of New Contact in the Nineteenth Century -- 6 The Body Revealed in the Anglo-American World, 1885-1914 -- Part III Blood, Debate, and Redemption in Georgia: The Path toward Reform -- 7 The World of Southern Racism: The Long Education of a Georgia Gentleman -- 8 Atlanta in Turmoil: The White Elite Reacts to Murder -- 9 From Burning Women to Protest and Action -- Conclusion: The Difficulty of Seeing Lynching -- Index.
Addressing one of the most controversial and emotive issues of American history, this book presents a thorough re-examination of the background, dynamics and decline of American lynching. It argues that collective homicide in the US cannot be properly understood solely through a discussion of the unsettled southern political situation after 1865, but must be seen against a global conversation about changing cultural meanings of 'race', as well as concepts of imperialism, gender, sexuality and 'civilization'.
9781317102960
Lynching-United States.
Racism-United States.
African Americans-Crimes against.
Electronic books.
HV6457 .T45 2016
364.1/34
Lynching : American Mob Murder in Global Perspective. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (442 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I What is Lynching? -- 1 The Processes of Lynching Around the World -- 2 The Roots of Mob Murder: Crises of Legitimacy, Dangers of the Frontier -- 3 Concepts of Crime and Justice in Lynching -- Part II Lynching and Cultural Change: Images of Sex, Savages, and Women -- 4 Race, Civilization, and Sexuality: A Global Conversation -- 5 Reordering Racism: Imperialism and the Challenges of New Contact in the Nineteenth Century -- 6 The Body Revealed in the Anglo-American World, 1885-1914 -- Part III Blood, Debate, and Redemption in Georgia: The Path toward Reform -- 7 The World of Southern Racism: The Long Education of a Georgia Gentleman -- 8 Atlanta in Turmoil: The White Elite Reacts to Murder -- 9 From Burning Women to Protest and Action -- Conclusion: The Difficulty of Seeing Lynching -- Index.
Addressing one of the most controversial and emotive issues of American history, this book presents a thorough re-examination of the background, dynamics and decline of American lynching. It argues that collective homicide in the US cannot be properly understood solely through a discussion of the unsettled southern political situation after 1865, but must be seen against a global conversation about changing cultural meanings of 'race', as well as concepts of imperialism, gender, sexuality and 'civilization'.
9781317102960
Lynching-United States.
Racism-United States.
African Americans-Crimes against.
Electronic books.
HV6457 .T45 2016
364.1/34