Lynching in the New South

Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930
Author: W. Fitzhugh Brundage
Unraveling the complexities of anti-Black violence
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978-0-252-06345-9
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Publication Date
Paperback: 01/01/1993
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About the Book

Lynching was a national crime. But it obsessed the South. W. Fitzhugh Brundage's multidisciplinary approach to the complex nature of lynching delves into the such extrajudicial murders in two states: Virginia, the southern state with the fewest lynchings; and Georgia, where 460 lynchings made the state a measure of race relations in the Deep South. Brundage's analysis addresses three central questions: How can we explain variations in lynching over regions and time periods? To what extent was lynching a social ritual that affirmed traditional white values and white supremacy? And, what were the causes of the decline of lynching at the end of the 1920s?

A groundbreaking study, Lynching in the New South is a classic portrait of the tradition of violence that poisoned American life.

About the Author

W. Fitzhugh Brundage is William Umstead Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina. His books include Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition and The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory.

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Blurbs

"The research is formidable, the analysis sophisticated. Clearly, this is the best work ever written on lynching."--Numan V. Bartley, author of The Rise of Massive Resistance: Race and Politics in the South during the 1950s

Awards

Winner of the Merle Curti Social History Award given by the Organization of American Historians, 1994.