Lynching: Violence, Rhetoric, and American Identity

by Ersula J. Ore

Book Overview

Winner of the 2020 Rhetoric Society of America Book Award

While victims of antebellum lynchings were typically white men, postbellum lynchings became more frequent and more intense, with the victims more often black. After Reconstruction, lynchings exhibited and embodied links between violent collective action, American civic identity, and the making of the nation.

Ersula J. Ore investigates lynching as a racialized practice of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496824083
• ISBN13: 9781496824080
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"