The Many Faces of Judge Lynch
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The Many Faces of Judge Lynch

Extralegal Violence and Punishment in America

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The Many Faces of Judge Lynch

Extralegal Violence and Punishment in America

About this book

The U.S. is the most violent industrialized country in the world, and lynching - that is, murder endorsed by the community - may be a key to understanding America's heritage of violence and perhaps point to solutions that can eradicate it. While lynchings are predominantly racial in tone and motive, Christopher Waldrep's sweeping study of the meaning and uses of lynching from the colonial period to the present reveals that the definition of the term has shifted dramatically over time, and that the victims and perpetuators of lynching were as diverse as its many meanings. By examining lynching from a comparative and temporal perspective, Waldrep teaches us important lessons not only about racial violence in America, but about the ways in which communities define and justify crime and the punishment of its criminals.

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Yes, you can access The Many Faces of Judge Lynch by C. Waldrep in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & North American History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2002
Print ISBN
9780312293994
eBook ISBN
9781403982711
Topic
History
Subtopic
North American History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter One: Prologue: The Origins of the Word
  6. Chapter Two: The Word and the Nation
  7. Chapter Three: “California Law”: The West and the Nation
  8. Chapter Four: “What We Call Murder”: Lynching and the Meaning of Legitimacy in Reconstruction
  9. Chapter Five: “The Indignation of the People Knew No Bounds”: The Lynching Narrative in the 1870s and 1880s
  10. Chapter Six: “Threadbare Lies”: Making Lynching Racial
  11. Chapter Seven: Tuskegee, the NAACP, and the Definition of Lynching, 1899–1940
  12. Chapter Eight: “High-Tech Lynchings”: Making the Rhetoric National
  13. Epilogue: Hate Crimes
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index