Manfred Berg

Popular Justice

A History of Lynching in America

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Produktbeschreibung

Manfred Berg traces the history of lynching in America from the colonial era to the present. Berg focuses on lynching as extralegal communal punishment performed by 'ordinary' people. He confronts racially fragmented historical memory and legacies of popular justice to help the reader make better sense of lynching as part of American history. Berg analyses lynching cases with victims ranging from African American men to white women to cattle rustlers as he explores the concepts of 'frontier justice' and 'popular justice.'

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9781566638029
• ISBN-10: 156663802X
• Artikelnr.: 33185582

Autorenporträt

Manfred Berg is the Curt Engelhorn Professor of American History at the University of Heidelberg. He is author of, among other books, The Ticket to Freedom: The NAACP and the Struggle for Black Political Integration.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: The Roots of Lynching in Colonial and Revolutionary North
America Chapter 2: The Rising Tide of Lynch-Law in Antebellum America
Chapter 3: Frontier Justice Chapter 4: Lynching, Riots, and Political
Terror in the Civil War Era Chapter 5: "Indescribable Barbarism": The
Lynching of African Americans in the Age of Jim Crow Chapter 6: Popular
Justice Beyond Black and White Chapter 7: The Struggle Against Lynching
Chapter 8: From Lynching to Hate Crime Conclusion: Lynching in American
Memory and Culture