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.
| ISBN: | 9780252063459 |
| Publication date: | 1st May 1993 |
| Author: | W Fitzhugh Brundage |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 400 pages |
| Series: | Blacks in the New World |
| Genres: |
History of the Americas Local history |