American Atrocity: The Types of Violence in Lynching

Lynching is often viewed as a narrow form of violence: either the spontaneous act of an angry mob against accused individuals or a demonstration of white supremacy against an entire population considered subhuman. In this new treatise, historian Guy Lancaster details lynchings of Blacks by white posses in post-Reconstruction Arkansas to expose the multiple forms of violence hidden beneath the singular label of lynching. Drawing from the fields of history, philosophy, cognitive science, soci...