Lynching in the New South : Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930 / W. Fitzhugh Brundage.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brundage, W. Fitzhugh (William Fitzhugh), 1959- author.

Series:

Blacks in the New World.

Blacks in the New World Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lynching--Georgia--History.

Lynching.

Lynching--Virginia--History.

Georgia--Race relations.

Georgia.

Virginia--Race relations.

Virginia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (435 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Champaign, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, [1993]

Summary:

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.

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Other Format:

Print version: Brundage, W. Fitzhugh Lynching in the New South

ISBN:

9780252053733

0252053737

OCLC:

1336992183