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Beyond the Rope - The Impact of Lynching on Black Culture and Memory (Hardcover)
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Beyond the Rope - The Impact of Lynching on Black Culture and Memory (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies on the American South
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Beyond the Rope is an interdisciplinary study that draws on
narrative theory and cultural studies methodologies to trace
African Americans' changing attitudes and relationships to lynching
over the twentieth century. Whereas African Americans are typically
framed as victims of white lynch mob violence in both scholarly and
public discourses, Karlos K. Hill reveals that in the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries African Americans lynched
other African Americans in response to alleged criminality, and
that twentieth-century black writers envisaged African American
lynch victims as exemplars of heroic manhood. By illuminating the
submerged histories of black vigilantism and consolidating
narratives of lynching in African American literature that framed
black victims of white lynch mob violence as heroic, Hill argues
that rather than being static and one dimensional, African American
attitudes towards lynching and the lynched black evolved in
response to changing social and political contexts.
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