James W. Clarke

The Lineaments of Wrath

Race, Violent Crime and American Culture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Violence has marked relations between blacks and whites in America for nearly four hundred years

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc
• Seitenzahl: 339
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 149mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 506g
• ISBN-13: 9780765808738
• ISBN-10: 0765808730
• Artikelnr.: 21700495

Autorenporträt

Clarke, James W.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Violence Begets Violence Part I: Slavery 2. The Lineaments of Wrath 3.
Scarred in the Flame of Withering Injustice Part II: Reconstruction 4. No
More Auction Block 5. The Paradox of Emancipation 6. The Failure of Reform
7. KKK: The Assault on Black Families Part III: The Restoration 8. Convict
Labor 9. A Lawless Loyalty to Color 10. The Scourge of Lynching 11.
Segregation, Disfranchisement, and Legal Lynchings 12. The Richest Soil,
the Poorest People Part IV: The Urban Transformation 13. The Promised Land
14. Black-on-Black Homicide, 1900-1939 15. Dark Ghettos 16. Killing Fumes
Part V: Consequences 17. Vanishing Families 18. Urban Tribal Societies 19.
Conclusions