Rope & Faggot: A Biography of Judge Lynch - Brossura

White, Walter Francis

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ISBN 10: 0268040079 ISBN 13: 9780268040079

Casa editrice: Univ of Notre Dame Pr, 2002

Riassunto

In 1926, Walter White, assistant secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, broke the story of a horrific lynching in Aiken, South Carolina, in which three African Americans were murdered while more than one thousand spectators watched. Because of his light complexion, blonde hair, and blue eyes, White, an African American, was able to investigate first-hand more than forty lynchings and eight race riots.
 
Following the lynchings in Aiken, White took a leave of absence from the NAACP and, with help from a Guggenheim grant, spent a year in France writingRope and Faggot. Ironically subtitled “A Biography of Judge Lynch,” Rope and Faggot is a compelling example of partisan scholarship and is based on White's first-hand investigations. It was first published in 1929.Rope and Faggot debunked the "big lie" that lynching punished black men for raping white women and it provided White with an opportunity to deliver a penetrating critique of the southern culture that nourished this form of blood sport. White marshaled statistics demonstrating that accusations of rape or attempted rape accounted for less than 30 percent of all lynchings. Despite the emphasis on sexual issues in instances of lynching, White insisted that the fury and sadism with which white mobs attacked their victims stemmed primarily from a desire to keep blacks in their place and control the black labor force. Some of the strongest sections ofRope and Faggot deal with White's analysis of the economic and cultural foundations of lynching.

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L'autore:

Walter White (1893-1955), author of two novels and three books of nonfiction, was assistant secretary and then secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 1918 until his death.
Kenneth Robert Janken is associate professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Janken is author ofRayford W. Logan and the Dilemma of the African-American Intellectual and an introduction toWhat the Negro Wants.

Product Description:

Ironically subtitled A biography of Judge Lynch this text looks at the author's first hand experiences of lynching and the cultural and economic foundations for the act.

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• Editore: Univ of Notre Dame Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0268040079
• ISBN 13: 9780268040079
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272