Cultures of Violence Lynching and Racial Killing in South Africa and the American South

Name: Cultures of Violence Lynching and Racial Killing in South Africa and the American South
Price: 7.17 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780719085574

ISBN-10: 0719085578

ISBN-13: 9780719085574

Edition: 2007

Authors: Ivan Evans, Own Own Author's

List price: $27.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $23.89

Marketplace

4 new & used from $7.17

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

This book deals with the inherent violence of "race relations" in two important countries that remain iconic expressions of white supremacy in the twentieth century. Cultures of Violencedoes not just reconstruct the era of violence. Instead it convincingly contrasts the "lynch culture" of the American South to the "bureaucratic culture of violence" in South Africa. By contrasting mobs of rope-wielding white Southerners to the gun-toting policemen and administrators who formally defended white supremacy in South Africa, Cultures of Violenceemploys racial killing as an optic for examining the distinctive logic of the racial state in the two contexts. Combining the historian's eye for detail…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Publication date: 4/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English



Preface



Introduction



ï¿½Rapeï¿½ and violence in the making of segregation



Racial violence and black labor in the South



Racial violence and state intervention in the South African economy



Racial violence and religion in the New South



ï¿½The weakness of some …ï¿½: Afrikaner civil religion and racial paternalism



The nightmare of multiple jurisdictions: States rights and lynching in the South



Racial violence and the legal system in South Africa



Conclusion


Notes


Index