Ethical Complications of Lynching Ida B. Wells's Interrogation of American Terror

by Sims, Angela D.

• ISBN13: 9780230622388
• ISBN10: 0230622380
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-03-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This project examines Ida B. Wells's ethical interrogation of America's infatuation with terror.

Author Biography

Angela D. Sims is Assistant Professor of Ethics and Black Church Studies at Saint Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, MO.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Prologue	p. 1
Introduction	p. 5
Identity and Formation: Character Development and the Shaping of a "Crusader for Justice"
Black Slave Family's Moral Situation in Mississippi during the Civil War	p. 21
Freed-Person of Color's Moral Situation in Mississippi during Reconstruction	p. 27
Head of Family's Response to the 1878 Yellow-Fever Epidemic	p. 35
Matter of Perspective: Ida B. Wells's Critique of Lynching
Wells on Lynching: An Overview	p. 45
Investigating Facts	p. 49
Interpreting Data	p. 63
Challenging "Alleged Causes"	p. 69
Beyond Rope and Fagot: A Womanist Ethical Analysis of Lynching
The Issue of Race and Lynching	p. 79
The Social Construction of Gender and Lynching	p. 87
The Intersection of Economics and Lynching	p. 91
A Paradigm Shift: Resources for a Christian Ethic of Resistance in the Works of Ida B. Wells
Re-Orientation: Viewing justice in a Racially Violent World	p. 101
Re-Evaluation: Demythologizing Hegemonic Structures	p. 113
Re-Interpretation: Defining Hope from a Minority Perspective	p. 119
Just Act: A Mandate to Talk about the Lynched	p. 127
Notes	p. 135
Bibliography	p. 171
Index	p. 187
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