The Many Faces of Judge Lynch: Extralegal Violence and Punishment in America

by Christopher Waldrep

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The U.S. is the most violent industrialized country in the world, and lynching - that is, murder endorsed by the community - may be a key to understanding America's heritage of violence and perhaps point to solutions that can eradicate it. While lynchings are predominantly racial in tone and motive, Christopher Waldrep's sweeping study of the meaning and uses of lynching from the colonial period to the present reveals that the definition of the term...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0312293992

ISBN13:9780312293994

Release Date:November 2002

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:265 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.4" x 9.7"

Related Subjects

Africa African-American Studies Americas Asia History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics Textbooks Violence in Society

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