With a breadth greater than any previously published work, this reference volume explores the history of lynching in the United States. Ninety-three chapters authored by expert scholars document the more than 3,446 African Americans, 1,297 White Americans, and 597 Mexican Americans who were lynched in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries around the different regions of the United States, as well as the responses and strategies for combating these brutal crimes. Further chapters discuss the lynchings of women, Chinese Americans, foreign nationals, and Italian Americans, as well as the relationship between lynching and phenomena such as religion, ritual, and the death penalty, and the relation between US lynching and collective violence around the world. Cultural production surrounding lynching--photographs, plays, films, novels, poetry, and language and rhetoric--is also considered. The volume includes a comprehensive bibliography of American lynching.
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Histoire des religionsTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- African American Land Ownership in the American South
- African American Protestants
- Alabama
- Alaska
- American Fiction
- Jessie Daniel Ames
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- George Armwood, 1933
- Attempted Lynchings
- Backcountry Regulator Movements
- James Byrd Jr., 1998
- California
- Capital Punishment
- Robert Charles, 1900
- Chinese Immigrants and Chinese Americans
- Civil Rights Workers, Neshoba County, Mississippi, 1964
- Civil War
- Colorado
- Duluth, Minnesota, 1920
- Enslaved African Americans and Free Black People
- Wesley Everest, 1919
- Rebecca Latimer Felton
- Film
- Florida
- Foreign Nationals
- Leo Frank, 1915
- Frontier Vigilante Movements
- Gamblers, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1835
- Georgia
- The Global Context of American Lynchings
- Hawai‘i
- The Hennessy Affair of 1891
- A “High-Tech Lynching”: Lynching in Recent American Rhetoric
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Italian Immigrants and Italian Americans
- Kansas
- Ku Klux Klan, 1868
- Louisiana
- Colonel Charles Lynch
- Maine
- Marion, Indiana, 1930
- Maryland
- Mexican Immigrants and Mexican Americans
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Moore’s Ford, 1946
- The NAACP Anti-Lynching Campaign
- The Nadir, 1890–1920
- The National Memorial for Peace and Justice
- Nebraska
- Laura and L. D. Nelson, 1911
- Nevada
- New Mexico
- New York State
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Plays on Lynching
- Poems
- Populism
- Robert Prager, 1918
- The Rape Myth
- Arthur Raper (1899–1979)
- Reconstruction
- Religion
- Researching in Local History
- Ritual
- Henry Smith, 1893
- South Carolina
- Southern Urbanization
- William Grant Still’s . . .And They Lynched Him on a Tree (1940)
- Strange Fruit
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Emmett Till, 1955
- Utah
- Virginia
- Washington State
- Jesse Washington, 1916
- Ida B. Wells (1862–1931)
- West Virginia
- Walter Francis White (1893–1955)
- Without Sanctuary Exhibitions
- Women
- World War I
- Cleo Wright, 1942
- Wyoming
- Bibliography
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