Lineaments of Wrath - Race, Violent Crime and American Culture

List of contents

1. Violence Begets Violence Part I: Slavery 2. The Lineaments of Wrath 3. Scarred in the Flame of Withering Injustice Part II: Reconstruction 4. No More Auction Block 5. The Paradox of Emancipation 6. The Failure of Reform 7. KKK: The Assault on Black Families Part III: The Restoration 8. Convict Labor 9. A Lawless Loyalty to Color 10. The Scourge of Lynching 11. Segregation, Disfranchisement, and Legal Lynchings 12. The Richest Soil, the Poorest People Part IV: The Urban Transformation 13. The Promised Land 14. Black-on-Black Homicide, 1900-1939 15. Dark Ghettos 16. Killing Fumes Part V: Consequences 17. Vanishing Families 18. Urban Tribal Societies 19. Conclusions

About the author

Clarke, James W.

Summary

Violence has marked relations between blacks and whites in America for nearly four hundred years

Product details

• Authors: Clarke, James W Clarke, James W. Clarke, Lames W. Clarke
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781138536609
• ISBN: 978-1-138-53660-9
• No. of pages: 339
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies