Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930

By W. Fitzhugh Brundage

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252063457
• ISBN13: 9780252063459
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"