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Ethical complications of lynching : Ida B. Wells's interrogation of American terror
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Ethical complications of lynching : Ida B. Wells's interrogation of American terror / Angela D. Sims.
ISBN
9780230622388 (alk. paper)
0230622380 (alk. paper)
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Physical Description
xi, 194 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 29, 2010
Series
Black religion, womanist thought, social justice
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Black slave family's moral situation in Mississippi during the Civil War
Freed-person of color's moral situation during Reconstruction
Head of family's response to the 1878 yellow fever epidemic
Wells on lynching : an overview
Investigating facts
Interpreting data
Challenging "alleged causes"
The issue of race and lynching
The social construction of gender and lynching
The intersection of economics and lynching
Re-orientation : viewing justice in a racially violent world
Re-evaluation : demythologizing hegemonic structures
Re-interpretation : defining hope from a minority perspective
Just act : a mandate to talk about the lynched.
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