Cultures of violence : lynching and racial killing in South Africa and the American South / / Ivan Evans

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910812843403321
• Autore: Evans Ivan Thomas <1957->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2007
• ISBN: 1-78170-220-9; 1-84779-294-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (316 pages)
• Disciplina: 364.1523089
• Soggetti: Lynching - 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; Lynching - South Africa - History; Violence - Social aspects - Southern States - History; Violence - History - Social aspects - South Africa; Racism - Southern States - History; Racism - South Africa - History; Race discrimination - Southern States - History; Race discrimination - South Africa - History; Crime and race - Southern States - History; Southern States Race relations; South Africa Race relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: 9780719078859; 9780719078859; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Women in eighteenth-century Methodism; 2. Women preachers' place in a divided Methodism; 3. The heyday of female itinerancy; 4. Philanthropists, volunteers, fund-raisers, and local preachers; 5. Women as Revivalists; 6. Women in missions at home and abroad; 7. Deaconesses, Sisters of ; the People, andthe revival of female itinerancy; Afterword; Bibliography; Index.
• 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.