Lynching Beyond Dixie: American Mob Violence Outside the by Michael J. Pfeifer PDF

By Michael J. Pfeifer

ISBN-10: 0252037464

ISBN-13: 9780252037467

ISBN-10: 0252078950

ISBN-13: 9780252078958

In contemporary a long time, students have explored a lot of the background of mob violence within the American South, particularly within the years after Reconstruction. besides the fact that, the lynching violence that happened in American areas outside the South, the place hundreds of thousands of people, together with Hispanics, whites, African americans, local americans, and Asian americans died by the hands of lynch mobs, has bought much less consciousness. This number of essays via fashionable and emerging students fills this hole through illuminating the standards that uncommon lynching within the West, the Midwest, and the Mid-Atlantic. the amount provides to a extra accomplished historical past of yankee lynching and should be of curiosity to all readers drawn to the background of violence around the different areas of the United States.

Contributors are Jack S. Blocker Jr., Brent M. S. Campney, William D. Carrigan, Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, Dennis B. Downey, Larry R. Gerlach, Kimberley Mangun, Helen McLure, Michael J. Pfeifer, Christopher Waldrep, Clive Webb, and Dena Lynn Winslow.

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