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The end of American lynchingAshraf H.A. Rushdy.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, (c)2012.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813552934
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HV6457 .E536 2012
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Contents:
The accountant and the opera house -- Date night in the courthouse square -- The end of American lynching -- The last American lynching -- Conclusion. The subject of lynching.
Subject: The End of American Lynching questions how we think about the dynamics of lynching, what lynchings mean to the society in which they occur, how lynching is defined, and the circumstances that lead to lynching. Ashraf H.A. Rushday looks at three lynchings over the course of the twentieth century-one in Coatesville, Pennsylvania in 1911, one in Marion, Indiana in 1930, and one in Jasper, Texas in 1998-to see how Americans developed two distinct ways of thinking and talking about this act before and after the 1930s.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction. When is an American lynching? -- The accountant and the opera house -- Date night in the courthouse square -- The end of American lynching -- The last American lynching -- Conclusion. The subject of lynching.

The End of American Lynching questions how we think about the dynamics of lynching, what lynchings mean to the society in which they occur, how lynching is defined, and the circumstances that lead to lynching. Ashraf H.A. Rushday looks at three lynchings over the course of the twentieth century-one in Coatesville, Pennsylvania in 1911, one in Marion, Indiana in 1930, and one in Jasper, Texas in 1998-to see how Americans developed two distinct ways of thinking and talking about this act before and after the 1930s.

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