num_pages: 400
description: 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 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 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.
language: English
title: Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930
titlecomplete: Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930 (Blacks in the New World)
genres: History, American History
ratings_count: 30
places: Virginia, Georgia
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Merle Curti Award, name: Elliott Rudwick Prize
publisher: University of Illinois Press