Legacies of Lynching: Racial Violence and Memory

ISBN-13: 9780816639953 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 264 str.

Jonathan Markovitz

Opis

Even during the years when lynching rates were at their peak, 1880-1930, says Markovitz (sociology, U. of California-San Diego), lynchings were never entirely confined to the physical realm, and were instead always intended to be seen as a metaphor for race relations more broadly defined. He also considers Clarence Thomas' claim that the investigat