My Soul Is a Witness: The Traumatic Afterlife of Lynching

by Mari N Crabtree

Book Overview

An intimate look at the afterlife of lynching through the personal stories of Black victims and survivors who lived through and beyond its trauma

Mari N. Crabtree traces the long afterlife of lynching in the South through the traumatic memories it left in its wake. She unearths how African American victims and survivors found ways to live through and beyond the horrors of lynching, offering a theory of African American collective trauma...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030025041X
• ISBN13: 9780300250411
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.4"