Beyond the Rope: The Impact of Lynching on Black Culture and Memory

by Karlos Hill and Karlos K. Hill

Book Overview

Beyond the Rope is an interdisciplinary study that draws on narrative theory and cultural studies methodologies to trace African Americans' changing attitudes and relationships to lynching over the twentieth century. Whereas African Americans are typically framed as victims of white lynch mob violence in both scholarly and public discourses, Karlos K. Hill reveals that in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries African Americans lynched...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107620376
• ISBN13: 9781107620377
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.6"