Under Sentence of Death

by Brundage, W. Fitzhugh

• ISBN13: 9780807846360
• ISBN10: 0807846368
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

"This important contribution to southern history and the history of U.S. race relations promises to inform, challenge, and enlighten readers". Patricia Sullivan, Author of Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Notes	p. 16
Approaches to Racial Violence and Lynching	p. 21
Note	p. 23
Narrative and Event: Lynching and Historical Sociology	p. 24
Notes	p. 42
The Sociogenesis of Lynching	p. 48
Lynching in the Local and Regional Context	p. 77
Note	p. 79
A Most Unexampled Exhibition of Madness and Brutality: Judge Lynch in Saline County, Missouri, 1859	p. 103
A Lynching in Wartime Carolina: The Death of Saxe Joiner	p. 127
When Race Didn't Matter Black and White Mob Violence against Their Own Color	p. 132
Notes	p. 151
The Cultural Context of Lynching	p. 155
Note	p. 157
Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Lynching the Leo Frank Case Revisited	p. 158
Lynching and Political Power in Mississippi and South Carolina	p. 189
North Carolina Lynching Ballads	p. 219
Black Responses and the Legacy of Lynching	p. 247
Notes	p. 249
By the Book: The Legal Executions of Kentucky Blacks	p. 250
The Roa on the Other Side of Silence Black Resistance and White Violence in the American South, 1880-1940	p. 271
Unsettled Business Ida B. Wells against Lynching, Or, How Antilynching Got Its Gender	p. 292
Afterword	p. 318
Notes	p. 321
Notes on the Contributors	p. 323
Index	p. 325
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