Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780252063459)

Lynching was a national crime. But it obsessed the South. W. Fitzhugh Brundage's multidisciplinary approach to the complex nature of lynching delves into the such extrajudicial murders in two states: Virginia, the southern state with the fewest lynchings; and Georgia, where 460 lynchings made the state a measure of race relations in the Deep South. Brundage's analysis addresses three central questions: How can we explain variations in lynching over regions and time periods? To what extent was lynching a social ritual that affirmed traditional white values and white supremacy? And, what were the causes of the decline of lynching at the end of the 1920s?

A groundbreaking study, Lynching in the New South is a classic portrait of the tradition of violence that poisoned American life.

Author: W. Fitzhugh Brundage
ISBN-10: 0252063457
ISBN-13: 9780252063459
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/1993
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.01w x 0.87d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 09/15/1993 pg. 107