Popular Justice - A History of Lynching in America

Informationen zum Autor Manfred Berg is the Curt Engelhorn Professor of American History at the University of Heidelberg. He is author of, among other books, The Ticket to Freedom: The NAACP and the Struggle for Black Political Integration. Klappentext Manfred Berg traces the history of lynching in America from the colonial era to the present. Berg focuses on lynching as extralegal communal punishment performed by "ordinary" people. He confronts racially fragmented historical memory and legacies of popular justice to help the reader make better sense of lynching as part of American history.Manfred Berg traces the history of lynching in America from the colonial era to the present. Berg focuses on lynching as extralegal communal punishment performed by "ordinary" people. He confronts racially fragmented historical memory and legacies of popular justice to help the reader make better sense of lynching as part of American history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: The Roots of Lynching in Colonial and Revolutionary North America Chapter 2: The Rising Tide of Lynch-Law in Antebellum America Chapter 3: Frontier Justice Chapter 4: Lynching, Riots, and Political Terror in the Civil War Era Chapter 5: "Indescribable Barbarism": The Lynching of African Americans in the Age of Jim Crow Chapter 6: Popular Justice Beyond Black and White Chapter 7: The Struggle Against Lynching Chapter 8: From Lynching to Hate Crime Conclusion: Lynching in American Memory and Culture

Product details

• Authors: Manfred Berg, Berg Manfred
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.03.2015
• EAN: 9781442245983
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-4598-3
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: American Ways Series; American Ways
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Penology and punishment, Penology & punishment, C 1700 To C 1800, African American History