At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America (Modern Library) - Softcover

Dray, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375754458 ISBN 13: 9780375754456

Verlag: Random House Publishing Group, 2003

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Book by Dray Philip

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Críticas

"A landmark work of unflinching scholarship."--The New York Times

"In this history of lynching in the post-Reconstruction South--the most comprehensive of its kind--the author has written what amounts to a Black Book of American race relations."--The New Yorker

"A powerfully written, admirably perceptive synthesis of the vast literature on lynching. It is the most comprehensive social history of this shameful subject in almost seventy years and should be recognized as a major addition to the bibliography of American race relations."--David Levering Lewis

"An important and courageous book, well written, meticulously researched, and carefully argued."--The Boston Globe

"You don't really know what lynching was until you read Dray's ghastly accounts of public butchery and official complicity."--Time

Reseña del editor

A definitive history of lynching in America describes its common use, especially in the southern United States, when thousands of African-American men, women, and children were tortured, mutilated, hanged, or burned alive in ceremonies witnessed by white crowds, and discusses the crusade by a handful of black and white citizens to eliminate the shameful practice. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

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• Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0375754458
• ISBN 13: 9780375754456
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 552