Lynched: The Power of Memory in a Culture of Terror

ISBN-13: 9781481306041 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 213 str.

Angela D. Sims

Opis

By tending to the words of these witnesses, Lynched exposes not only a culture of fear and violence but the practice of story and memory, as well as the narrative of hope within a renewed possibility for justice.--Marcia Y. Riggs "Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology"

Spis treści

• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Chapter 1. Echoes of a Not So Distant Past: African Americans Remember Lynching
• Chapter 2. Courageous Truth Telling: Historical Remembrance as an Ethical-Theological Mandate
• Chapter 3. Faithful Witness: Oral Narratives and Human Agency
• Chapter 4. Unrelenting Tenacity: In the Shadow of the Lynching Tree
• Chapter 5. Lessons, Concerns, Hopes: Embodying an Ethic of Resilient Resistance
• Notes
• Index