Lynching : violence, rhetoric, and American identity / Ersula J. Ore.
| Author/creator | Ore, Ersula J. author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2019] |
| Description | xx, 175 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Race, rhetoric, and media series Race, rhetoric, and media series. ^A1130075 |
| Contents | Preface: Death wish -- Introduction: a rhetoric of civic belonging -- Constituting the citizen race -- A lesson in civics -- A past not yet passed -- Lynching in the age of Obama -- Conclusion: civics lessons continued -- Postscript: caught up. |
| General note | "First printing 2019." |
| General note | "While victims of antebellum lynchings were typically white men, postbellum lynchings became more frequent and more intense, with the victims more often black. After Reconstruction, lynchings exhibited and embodied links between violent collective action, American civic identity, and the making of the nation. Ersula J. Ore investigates lynching as a racialized practice of civic engagement. Ore scrutinizes the civic roots of lynching, the relationship between lynching and white constitutionalism, and contemporary manifestations of lynching discourse and logic today. From the 1880s onward, lynchings, she finds, manifested a violent form of symbolic action that called a national public into existence, denoted citizenship, and upheld political community. Grounded in Ida B. Wells's summation of lynching as a social contract among whites to maintain a racial order, at its core, Ore's book speaks to racialized violence as a mode of civic engagement. Since violence enacts an argument about citizenship, Ore construes lynching and its expressions as part and parcel of America's rhetorical tradition and political legacy. Drawing upon newspapers, official records, and memoirs, as well as critical race theory, Ore outlines the connections between what was said and written, the material practices of lynching in the past, and the forms these rhetorics and practices assume now. In doing so, she demonstrates how lynching functioned as a strategy interwoven with the formation of America's national identity and with the nation's need to continually restrict and redefine that identity. In addition, Ore ties black resistance to lynching, the acclaimed exhibit Without Sanctuary, recent police brutality, effigies of Barack Obama, and the killing of Trayvon Martin."--:Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Ore, Ersula J. Lynching. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2019] 9781496821607 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2018054787 |
| ISBN | 9781496821591 hardcover ; alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 1496821599 hardcover ; alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 9781496824080 paperback ; alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 1496824083 paperback ; alkaline paper |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | HV6457 .O74 2019 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |