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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820135603321

Autore

Bailey Amy Kate

Titolo

Lynched : the victims of Southern mob violence / / Amy Kate Bailey & Stewart E. Tolnay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : , : University of North Carolina Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

979-88-908473-9-3

1-4696-2309-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Disciplina

364.1/34

Soggetti

Lynching - Southern States - History

Victims of violent crimes - Southern States - History

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

The scholarship on Southern lynching -- Resurrecting the identities of lynch victims -- The characteristics of black male lynch victims -- Victims as marginal men? -- Targeted because of their success? -- Vulnerability in economic, political, and religious context -- Atypical victims: females and white males -- The victims of Southern mob violence.

Sommario/riassunto

Drawing on new sources to provide the most comprehensive portrait of the men and women lynched in the American South, Amy Bailey and Stewart Tolnay's revealing profiles and careful analysis begin to restore the identities of - and lend dignity to - hundreds of lynching victims about whom we have known little more than their names and alleged offenses.