Cultures of violence [[electronic resource] ] : racial violence and the origins of segregation in South Africa and the American South / / Ivan Evans

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465666903321
• Autore: Evans Ivan Thomas <1957->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Manchester, U.K. ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press; New York, : Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, c2009
• ISBN: 1-78170-220-9; 1-84779-294-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (316 p.)
• Disciplina: 364.1/34
• Soggetti: Lynching - Southern States - History; Lynching - South Africa - History; Violence - Social aspects - Southern States - History; Violence - Social aspects - South Africa - History; Racism - Southern States - History; Racism - South Africa - History; Race discrimination - Southern States - History; Race discrimination - South Africa - History; Crime and race - Southern States - History; Crime and race - South Africa - History; Discrimination in criminal justice administration - Southern States - History; Discrimination in criminal justice administration - South Africa - History; Electronic books.; Southern States Race relations; South Africa Race relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-297) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: "Rape" and violence in the making of segregation -- Racial violence and black labor in the South -- Racial violence and state intervention in the South African economy -- Racial violence and religion in the New South ; -- "The weakness of some ..." : Afrikaner civil religion and racial paternalism -- The nightmare of multiple jurisdictions : States rights and lynching in the South -- Racial violence and the legal system in South Africa.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book deals with the inherent violence of "race relations" in two important countries that remain iconic expressions of white supremacy in the twentieth century. *Cultures of violence* does not just reconstruct the era of violence. Instead it convincingly contrasts the "lynch culture" of the American South to the "bureaucratic culture of violence" in South Africa.By contrasting mobs of rope-wielding white Southerners to the gun-toting policemen and administrators who formally defended white supremacy in South Africa, *Cultures of violence* employs racial killing as an optic for examining t