The new encyclopedia of Southern culture. Volume 19, Violence / Amy Louise Wood, volume editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wood, Amy Louise, 1967- editor.

University of Mississippi. Center for the Study of Southern Culture.

Series:

New encyclopedia of Southern culture ; v. 19.

The new encyclopedia of Southern culture ; v. 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--Southern States--Encyclopedias.

Violence.

Southern States--Social conditions--Encyclopedias.

Southern States.

Southern States--Race relations--Encyclopedias.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 299 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2011.

Summary:

Much of the violence that has been associated with the United States has had particular salience for the South, from its high homicide rates, or its bloody history of racial conflict, to southerners' popular attachment to guns and traditional support for capital punishment. With over 95 entries, this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture explores the most significant forms and many of the most harrowing incidences of violence that have plagued southern society over the past 300 years.

Contents:

VIOLENCE IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH; American Indians, Violence toward; Arson; Black Armed Resistance; Blood Sports; Capital Punishment; Church Burnings; Civil Rights, Federal Enforcement; Civil Rights-Era Violence; Civil War; Corporal Punishment in Schools; Criminal Justice through the Civil Rights Era; Dueling; Feuds and Feuding; Films about Lynching; Films about Prison; Guns; Homicide; Honor; Hunting; Labor Violence; Literature, Violence in; Lynching; Memory; Mexican Americans, Violence toward; Militarism

Nonviolent Protest (Civil Disobedience) Organized Crime; Outlaw-Heroes; Peonage; Police Brutality; Political Violence; Prisons; Race Riots; Rape; Reconstruction-Era Violence; Religion and Violence; Slave Culture, Violence within; Slave Patrols; Slave Revolts; Slaves, Violence toward; Song, Black, Violence in; Song, White, Violence in; Southwestern Violence; Suicide; Vigilantism; Alamo; American Indian Blood Revenge; American Indian Slave Trade; Ames, Jessie Daniel; Andersonville Prison; Angola Prison (Louisiana State Penitentiary); Antiabortion Violence; Antilynching Activism

Atlanta (Georgia) Race Riots (1906) Bacon's Rebellion; Birmingham Church Bombing; The Birth of a Nation; Black Militias; "Bonnie and Clyde"; Bowie Knife; Byrd, James, Murder of; Chain Gang; Convict Leasing; Copeland, James; Cortez, Gregorio; Deliverance; Donald, Michael, Lynching of; Elaine (Arkansas) Massacre (1919); Evers, Medgar, Assassination of; Filibusters; Forrest, Nathan Bedford; Frank, Leo; Greensboro (North Carolina) Massacre (1979); Guerrilla Bands; Harlan County, Kentucky; Hatfields and McCoys; James Brothers; King, Martin Luther, Jr., Assassination of; Knights of the Golden Circle

Ku Klux Klan, Civil Rights Era to the Present Ku Klux Klan, Reconstruction-Era; Ku Klux Klan, Second (1915-1944); Long, Huey, Assassination of; Lynching Photography; Night Riders; Orangeburg (South Carolina) Massacre (1968); Parchman (Mississippi State Penitentiary); Redfield, H. V.; Regulator Movement; Rosewood (Florida) Incident (1923); Scottsboro Case; Sumner-Brooks Affair; Texas Rangers; Till, Emmett; Trail of Tears; Tulsa (Oklahoma) Race Riot (1921); Turner, Nat; Waco Siege (Branch Davidians); Wells-Barnett, Ida B.; Whitecappers; Wilmington (North Carolina) Race Riot (1898)

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

"Published with the assistance of the Anniversary Endowment Fund of the University of North Carolina Press."

"Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

979-88-908861-9-4

0-8078-6928-7

OCLC:

819592882