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701529
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b523718
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| Title & Author
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Under sentence of death : : lynching in the South /\ edited by W. Fitzhugh Brundage.
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| Publication Statement
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Chapel Hill :: University of North Carolina Press,, c1997.
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ix, 330 p. :: ill., maps ;; 25 cm.
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| ISBN
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0807823260 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 0807846368 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 9780807823262 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 9780807846360 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Narrative and event : lynching and historical sociology / Larry J. Griffin, Paula Clark, Joanne C. Sandberg -- Sociogenesis of lynching / Roberta Senechal de la Roche -- Most unexampled exhibition of madness and brutality : Judge Lynch in Saline County, Missouri / Thomas G. Dyer -- Lynching in wartime Carolina : the death of Saxe Joiner / Joan E. Cashin -- When race didn't matter : black and white mob violence against their own color / E. M. Beck, Stewart E. Tolnay -- Gender, sexuality, and politics of lynching : the Leo Frank case revisited / Nancy MacLean -- Lynching and political power in Mississippi and South Carolina / Terence Finnegan -- North Carolina lynching ballads / Bruce E. Baker -- By the book : the legal executions of Kentucky blacks / George C. Wright -- Roar on other side of silence : black resistance and white violence in American south, 1880-1940 / W. Fitzhugh Brundage -- Unsettled business : Ida B. Wells against lynching, or, how antilynching got its gender / Patricia A. Schechter.
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| Abstract
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This collection of essays explores "such topics as same-race lynchings, black resistance to white violence, and the political motivations for lynching...The book raises important questions about Southern history, race relations, and the nature of American violence."--Back cover.
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| Subject
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African Americans-- Crimes against-- History.
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Lynching-- Southern States-- History.
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Racism-- Southern States-- History.
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Southern States, Race relations, History.
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| LC Classification
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HV6464.U49 1997
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| Added Entry
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Brundage, W. Fitzhugh, (William Fitzhugh),1959-
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