Racial Terrorism: A Rhetorical Investigation of Lynching

by Nicholas S Paliewicz, Marouf A Hasian, Marouf A. Hasian Jr., et al.

Book Overview

In December 2018, the United States Senate unanimously passed the nation's first antilynching act, the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act. For the first time in US history, legislators, representing the American people, classified lynching as a federal hate crime.

While lynching histories and memories have received attention among communication scholars and some interdisciplinary studies of traditional civil rights memorials exist, contemporary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496831756
• ISBN13: 9781496831750
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"