Legacies of Lynching: Racial Violence and Memory

By Jonathan Markovitz

Even today, as revealed by the 1998 dragging death of James Byrd in Jasper, Texas, and the national soul-searching it precipitated, lynching continues to pervade America's collective memory. Markovitz concludes with an analysis of debates about a recent exhibition of photographs of lynchings, suggesting again how lynching as metaphor remains always in the background of our national discussions of race and racial relations.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816639949
• ISBN13: 9780816639946
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.2"