This mob will surely take my life : lynchings in the Carolinas, 1871-1947 / / Bruce E. Baker
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| Autore: |
Baker Bruce E. <1971->
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| Titolo: |
This mob will surely take my life : lynchings in the Carolinas, 1871-1947 / / Bruce E. Baker
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| Pubblicazione: | London, [England] : , : Continuum, , 2008 |
| ©2008 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 364.1/34 |
| 364.134 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Lynching - North Carolina - History |
| Lynching - South Carolina - History | |
| Soggetto geografico: | North Carolina Race relations |
| South Carolina Race relations | |
| Caroline du Nord Relations raciales | |
| Caroline du Sud Relations raciales | |
| South Carolina | |
| North Carolina | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Reconstruction violence and the foundations of the lynching era : Unionville, S.C. 1871 -- Black politics and lynching after Reconstruction : Giles Good, Yorkville, S.C. 1887 -- Rape and lynching in the new South : Manse Waldrop, Central, S.C. 1887 -- North Carolina's turn against lynching : J.V. Johnson, Wadesboro, N.C. 1906 -- Lies and lynching : Richard Puckett, Laurens, S.C. 1913 -- A wartime lynching : Rev. Watson T. Sims, Sharon, S.C. 1917 -- A disgrace to North Carolina : Oliver Moore, Tarboro, N.C. 1930. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Lynching marked the violent outer boundaries of race and class relations in the American South between Reconstruction and the civil rights era. Everyday interactions could easily escalate into mob violence, and did so thousands of times. Bruce Baker examines this important aspect of American history by taking seven lynchings in North Carolina and South Carolina and studying them in detail. He succeeds in getting behind the superficial accounts and explanations provided at the time to explain the deeper causes and wider contexts of these events. Many studies of lynching begin only after Reconst |
| Titolo autorizzato: | This mob will surely take my life |
| ISBN: | 1-282-87415-2 |
| 9786612874154 | |
| 1-4411-3722-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910785489803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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