Cultures of Violence - Lynching and Racial Killing in South Africa and the American South (Paperback)

The book deals with the inherent violence of "race relations" in two important countries that remain iconic expressions of white supremacy in the twentieth century. Cultures of Violence does not just reconstruct the era of violence, however. Instead, it convincingly contrasts the "lynch culture" of the South to the "bureaucratic culture of violence" in South Africa. By contrasting mobs of rope-wielding white Southerners to the gun-toting policemen and administrators who formally defended white supremacy in South Africa, Cultures of Violence employs racial killing as an optic for examining the distinctive logic of the racial state in the two contexts. Combining the historian's eye for detail with the sociologist's search for overarching claims, the book explores the systemic connections amongst three substantive areas- agrarian class relations, the rule of law, and the role of Protestant religion-to explain why contrasting traditions of racial violence took such firm root in the American South and South Africa. Thus, departing from accounts that generally underscore the similarities between the two contexts, Cultures of Violence not only makes a convincing case for the differences that distinguished white supremacy but also brings the distinction to bear on the divergent trajectories of "race relations" in the contemporary period. The book shows that a sturdy tradition of explicit state involvement in the management of "race relations" in South Africa was reworked into a remarkably transparent, state-sponsored search for national "truth and reconciliation."

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2011
First published:	2007
Authors:	Ivan Evans
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-0-7190-8557-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > African history > General Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Violence in society > General Books > History > African history > General Books > History > American history > General
LSN:	0-7190-8557-8
Barcode:	9780719085574

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