Ethical Complications of Lynching: Ida B. Wells's Interrogation of American Terror

by Angela D. Sims

Book Overview

In an increasingly globalized economy, Sims argues that Ida B. Wells's fight against lynching is a viable option to address systemic forms of oppression. More than a century since Wells launched her anti-lynching campaign, an examination of her work questions America's use of lynching as a tool to regulate behavior and the manner in which public opinion is shaped and lived out in the private sector. Ethical Complications of Lynching highlights the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230622380
• ISBN13: 9780230622388
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"