Lynched : the victims of Southern mob violence / Amy Kate Bailey & Stewart E. Tolnay.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bailey, Amy Kate (Author)
Tolnay, Stewart Emory (Author)
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill [North Carolina] : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Lynching > Southern States > History.
Victims of violent crimes > Southern States > History.
Lynching.
Victims of violent crimes.
Southern States.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xviii, 276 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The scholarship on Southern lynching
  • Resurrecting the identities of lynch victims
  • The characteristics of black male lynch victims
  • Victims as marginal men?
  • Targeted because of their success?
  • Vulnerability in economic, political, and religious context
  • Atypical victims: females and white males
  • The victims of Southern mob violence.