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Takes on one of the grimmest secrets in America's national life - the history of lynching and, more generally, the public punishment of African Americans. The author shows that lynching cannot be explained away as a phenomenon peculiar to the South or as the perverse culmination of racist politics.

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"An absolutely remarkable work. Goldsby argues that lynching was not a phenomenon that can be explained solely by appeals to psychoanalytic theory, nor can it be seen as a purely regional event confined to the South. Instead, lynching is best understood when historicized, placed firmly in the political, economic, and social contexts of American modernity. This is an extraordinary book that affects the reader on so many different registers - the political, the logical, and the emotional." - Carla L. Peterson, University of Maryland"

A Spectacular Secret Lynching in American Life

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    A Paperback / softback by Jacqueline Goldsby

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/12/2005
      ISBN13: 9780226301389, 978-0226301389
      ISBN10: 0226301389
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      Book Synopsis
      Takes on one of the grimmest secrets in America's national life - the history of lynching and, more generally, the public punishment of African Americans. The author shows that lynching cannot be explained away as a phenomenon peculiar to the South or as the perverse culmination of racist politics.

      Trade Review
      "An absolutely remarkable work. Goldsby argues that lynching was not a phenomenon that can be explained solely by appeals to psychoanalytic theory, nor can it be seen as a purely regional event confined to the South. Instead, lynching is best understood when historicized, placed firmly in the political, economic, and social contexts of American modernity. This is an extraordinary book that affects the reader on so many different registers - the political, the logical, and the emotional." - Carla L. Peterson, University of Maryland"

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