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The Making of a Lynching Culture: Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas, 1836-1916. New edition
・ISBN 978-0-252-07430-1 paper US$ 28.00
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| 著者・編者 | Carrigan, William D., |
|---|---|
| 出版社 | (University of Illinois Press, US) |
| 出版年月 | 2006 |
| ページ数 | 328 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜A04-34018＞ |
解説
How a culture of violence legitimized lynching among ordinary people
On May 15, 1916, a crowd of fifteen thousand witnessed the lynching of an eighteen-year-old black farm worker named Jesse Washington. Most central Texans of the time failed to call for the punishment of the mob's leaders. In The Making of a Lynching Culture, now in paperback, William D. Carrigan seeks to explain not how a fiendish mob could lynch one man but how a culture of violence that nourished this practice could form and endure for so long among ordinary people.
Beginning with the 1836 independence of Texas, The Making of a Lynching Culture reexamines traditional explanations of lynching, including the role of the frontier, economic tensions, and political conflicts. Using a voluminous body of court records, newspaper accounts, oral histories, and other sources, Carrigan shows how notions of justice and historical memory were shaped to glorify violence and foster a culture that legitimized lynching.