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Lynching in the New South

Lynching in the New South Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930 - Blacks in the New World

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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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780252063459
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Pub date:
Edition: New edition 1
DEWEY: 364.134
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 400
Weight: 548g
Height: 228mm
Width: 154mm
Spine width: 20mm