American Lynching

A history of lynching in America over the course of three centuries, from colonial Virginia to twentieth-century Texas

"A sophisticated and thought-provoking examination of the historical relationship between the American culture of lynching and the nation’s political traditions.”—William Carrigan, Rowan University

After observing the varying reactions to the 1998 death of James Byrd Jr. in Texas, called a lynching by some, denied by others, Ashraf Rushdy determined that to comprehend this e...