[BOOK][B] American lynching
AHA Rushdy - 2012 - books.google.com
A history of lynching in America over the course of three centuries, from colonial Virginia to
twentieth-century Texas. After observing the varying reactions to the 1998 death of James
Byrd Jr. in Texas, called a lynching by some, denied by others, Ashraf Rushdy determined
that to comprehend this event he needed to understand the long history of lynching in the
United States. In this meticulously researched and accessibly written interpretive history,
Rushdy shows how lynching in America has endured, evolved, and changed in meaning …
twentieth-century Texas. After observing the varying reactions to the 1998 death of James
Byrd Jr. in Texas, called a lynching by some, denied by others, Ashraf Rushdy determined
that to comprehend this event he needed to understand the long history of lynching in the
United States. In this meticulously researched and accessibly written interpretive history,
Rushdy shows how lynching in America has endured, evolved, and changed in meaning …
[BOOK][B] The end of American lynching
AHA Rushdy - 2012 - books.google.com
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 HA Rushdy 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. One way takes …
lynchings mean to the society in which they occur, how lynching is defined, and the
circumstances that lead to lynching. Ashraf HA Rushdy 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. One way takes …