Legacies Of Lynching: Racial Violence And Memory
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Legacies Of Lynching: Racial Violence And Memory
By (Author) Jonathan Markovitz
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
9th June 2004
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Ethnic studies
Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism
364.134
Physical Properties
Paperback
264
Width 149mm, Height 229mm, Spine 13mm
Description
Even today, as revealed by the 1998 dragging death of James Byrd in Jasper, Texas, and the national soul-searching it precipitated, lynching continues to pervade America's collective memory. Markovitz concludes with an analysis of debates about a recent exhibition of photographs of lynchings, suggesting again how lynching as metaphor remains always in the background of our national discussions of race and racial relations.
Author Bio
Jonathan Markovitz is a lecturer in sociology at the University of California, San Diego.
