Beschreibung:
This volume contains essays be ten scholars at the forefront of the movement to broaden and deepen our understanding of mob violence in the United States.
(1)Introduction (William D. Carrigan, Rowan University). (2) Wisconsin's Last Decade of Lynching, 1881-1891. (Michael J. Pfeifer, The Evergreen State College) (3) Lynching in the Mid-Atlantic, 1882-1940. (Janice Barrow, University of Delaware) (4) Lynch Law Reversed: The Rape of Lula Sherman, the Lynching of Manse Waldrop, and the Debate over Lynching in the 1880s. (Bruce E. Baker, Royal Holloway, University of London) (5) Raw, Quivering Flesh': John G. Cashman's 'Pornographic' Constitutionalism Designed to Produce an 'Aversion and Detestation', 1883-1904. ( Christopher Waldrep, San Francisco State University) (6) Resolving the Paradox of Our Lynching Fixation: Reconsidering racialized violence in the American South after slavery. (Kidada E. Williams, University of Michigan) (7) 'Warranted Lynchings': Narratives of Lynchings in Southern white Supremacy. (Susan Jean, Columbia University) (8) Lynching Photography and the Visual Reproduction of White Supremacy (Amy Louise Wood, Illinois State University Conclusion (W. Fitzhugh Brundage, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)