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Lynching - American Mob Murder in Global Perspective (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Lynching - American Mob Murder in Global Perspective (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Addressing one of the most controversial and emotive issues of
American history, this book presents a thorough reexamination of
the background, dynamics, and decline of American lynching. It
argues that collective homicide in the US can only be partly
understood through a discussion of the unsettled southern political
situation after 1865, but must also be seen in the context of a
global conversation about changing cultural meanings of 'race'. A
deeper comprehension of the course of mob murder and the dynamics
that drove it emerges through comparing the situation in the US
with violence that was and still is happening around the world.
Drawing on a variety of approaches - historical, anthropological
and literary - the study shows how concepts of imperialism, gender,
sexuality, and civilization profoundly affected the course of mob
murder in the US. Lynching provides thought-provoking analyses of
cases where race was - and was not - a factor. The book is
constructed as a series of case studies grouped into three thematic
sections. Part I, Understanding Lynching, starts with accounts of
mob murder around the world. Part II, Lynching and Cultural Change,
examines shifting concepts of race, gender, and sexuality by
drawing first on the romantic travel and adventure fiction of the
era 1880-1920, from authors such as H. Rider Haggard and Edgar Rice
Burroughs. Changing images of black and white bodies form another
major focus of this section. Part III, Blood, Debate, and
Redemption in Georgia, follows the story of American collective
murder and growing opposition to it in Georgia, a key site of
lynching, in the early twentieth century. By situating American mob
murder in a wide international context, and viewing the phenomenon
as more than simply a tool of racial control, this book presents a
reappraisal of one of the most unpleasant, yet important periods of
America's history, one that remains crucial for understanding race
relations and collective violence around the world.
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