Gender and Lynching The Politics of Memory

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DC Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Simien, Evelyn M.	-
dc.date.accessioned	2019-06-06T12:27:02Z	-
dc.date.available	2019-06-06T12:27:02Z	-
dc.date.issued	2011	-
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-137-00122-1	-
dc.identifier.uri	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/71481	-
dc.description	The conventional approach to (or master narrative of) American civil rights history has focused almost exclusively on Black male victimhood during the era of lynching, encompassing nearly five decades from 1880–1930. Rather than broaden and deepen our understanding of racial discrimination, however, such an approach often simplifies and distorts the more complex and devastating history of lynching in the United States.2 Indeed, both academic and popular discussions of lynching are dominated by a static, fixed understanding of deprivation that is principally racially based. Far less common is an association of the era with a richer, more nuanced understanding of deprivation that is critical of hierarchal relationships determined by interlocking systems of oppression—namely, racism and sexism	-
dc.language	en	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Palgrave Macmillan	en_US
dc.subject	Lynching in literature.	en_US
dc.title	Gender and Lynching The Politics of Memory	en_US
dc.type	Book	en_US
Appears in Collections:	Gender

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