Lynching Reconsidered: New Perspectives in the Study of Mob Violence

ISBN-13: 9780415366762 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 240 str.

Carrigan, William D.

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This volume contains essays by ten scholars at the forefront of the movement to broaden and deepen our understanding of mob violence in the United States.

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Introduction

William D. Carrigan

Wisconsin’s Last Decade of Lynching, 1881-1891 Michael J. Pfeifer Lynching in the Mid-Atlantic, 1882-1940

Janice Barrow

Lynch Law Reversed: The Rape of Lula Sherman, the Lynching of Manse Waldrop, and the Debate over Lynching in the 1880s

Bruce E. Baker

‘Raw, Quivering Flesh’: John G. Cashman’s ‘Pornographic’ Constitutionalism Designed to Produce an ‘Aversion and Detestation’, 1883-1904

Christopher Waldrep

Resolving the Paradox of Our Lynching Fixation: Reconsidering Racial Terror in the Nineteenth Century

Kidada E. Williams

Narratives of Lynching in Southern White Newspapers

Susan Jean

Lynching Photography and the Visual Reproduction of White Supremacy

Amy Louise Wood

The Lynching of Immigrants in the U.S. South

Clive Webb

Conclusion

W. Fitzhugh Brundage

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WILLIAM D. CARRIGAN IS ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AT ROWAN UNIVERSITY IN GLASSBORO, NEW JERSEY. HIS FIRST BOOK WAS THE MAKING OF A LYNCHING CULTURE: VIOLENCE AND VIGILANTISM IN CENTRAL TEXAS, 1836-1916. HE IS CURRENTLY AT WORK WITH CLIVE WEBB ON A STUDY OF MOB VIOLENCE AGAINST MEXICANS IN THE UNITED STATES.