Rough Justice
Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of Illinois Press
Published:22nd Feb '06
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The history of lynching's transformation from collective, popular violence to state_sanctioned, sanitized execution
Investigates the pervasive and persistent commitment to "rough justice" that characterized rural and working class areas of most of the United States in the late nineteenth century. This work examines the influence of race, gender, and class on understandings of criminal justice and shows how they varied across regions.The history of lynching
"In this thought-provoking, impressively researched, sweeping study of rough justice in the United States, Pfeifer expands the history of lynching and its transmutation from popular, ritualized collective violece to state-sanctioned, sanitized execution, that is, legal lynching."--American Studies
ISBN: 9780252074059
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
Weight: 399g
256 pages