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This incisive study takes on one of the grimmest secrets in America's national life—the history of lynching and, more generally, the public punishment of African Americans. Jacqueline Goldsby shows that lynching cannot be explained away as a phenomenon peculiar to the South or as the perverse culmination of racist politics. Rather, lynching—a highly visible form of social violence that has historically been shrouded in secrecy—was in fact a fundamental part of the national consciousness whose cu

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Author

Jacqueline Denise Goldsby

Publisher

University of Chicago Press ; University Presses Marketing [distributor

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226791982

Category

history

Subjects

Science, Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism

Rating

4.17 / 5 (24 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14