The Lineaments of Wrath: Race, Violent Crime and American Culture

ISBN-13: 9781138536609 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 339 str.

James W. Clarke

Opis

Violence has marked relations between blacks and whites in America for nearly four hundred years

Spis treści

1. Violence Begets Violence Part I: Slavery 2. The Lineaments of Wrath 3. Scarred in the Flame of Withering Injustice Part II: Reconstruction 4. No More Auction Block 5. The Paradox of Emancipation 6. The Failure of Reform 7. KKK: The Assault on Black Families Part III: The Restoration 8. Convict Labor 9. A Lawless Loyalty to Color 10. The Scourge of Lynching 11. Segregation, Disfranchisement, and Legal Lynchings 12. The Richest Soil, the Poorest People Part IV: The Urban Transformation 13. The Promised Land 14. Black-on-Black Homicide, 1900-1939 15. Dark Ghettos 16. Killing Fumes Part V: Consequences 17. Vanishing Families 18. Urban Tribal Societies 19. Conclusions

O autorze

Clarke, James W.