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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792125403321

Autore

Sims A

Titolo

Ethical Complications of Lynching [[electronic resource] ] : Ida B. Wells’s Interrogation of American Terror / / by A. Sims

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2010

ISBN

1-282-90922-3

9786612909221

0-230-10620-X

9781282909229

Edizione

[1st ed. 2010.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Collana

Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice

Disciplina

364.1/34

364.134

Soggetti

Ethics

Social history

Civilization—History

Religion—History

Psychology and religion

Moral Philosophy

Social History

Cultural History

History of Religion

Religion and Psychology

United States Race relations Moral and ethical aspects

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Introduction; Part One: Identity and Formation: Character Development and the Shaping of a "Crusader for Justice"; Part Two: A Matter of Perspective: Ida B. Wells's Critique of Lynching; Part Three: Beyond Rope and Fagot: A Womanist Ethical Analysis of Lynching; Part Four: A Paradigm Shift: Resources for a Christian Ethic of Resistance in the Works of Ida B. Wells; Notes; Bibliography; Index



Sommario/riassunto

In an increasingly globalized economy, Sims argues that Ida B. Wells s fight against lynching is a viable option to address systemic forms of oppression. More than a century since Wells launched her anti-lynching campaign, an examination of her work questions America s use of lynching as a tool to regulate behavior and the manner in which public opinion is shaped and lived out in the private sector. Ethical Complications of Lynching highlights the residual effects of lynching as a twenty-first century moral impediment in the fight to actualize ethical possibilities.