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Product details
- ISBN 9780252063459
- Weight: 540g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 May 1993
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Lynching was a national crime. But it obsessed the South. W. Fitzhugh Brundage's multidisciplinary approach to the complex nature of lynching delves into the such extrajudicial murders in two states: Virginia, the southern state with the fewest lynchings; and Georgia, where 460 lynchings made the state a measure of race relations in the Deep South. Brundage's analysis addresses three central questions: How can we explain variations in lynching over regions and time periods? To what extent was lynching a social ritual that affirmed traditional white values and white supremacy? And, what were the causes of the decline of lynching at the end of the 1920s?
A groundbreaking study, Lynching in the New South is a classic portrait of the tradition of violence that poisoned American life.
W. Fitzhugh Brundage is William Umstead Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina. His books include Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition and The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory.
