Ethical complications of lynching: Ida B. Wells's interrogation of American terror
Sims, Angela D.
This project examines Ida B. Wells's ethical interrogation of America's infatuation with terror. INDICE: PART I: IDENTITY AND FORMATION: CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT AND THE SHAPING OF A 'CRUSADER FOR JUSTICE' The Black Slave Family's Moral Situation in Mississippi during the Civil War The Freed-Person of Color's Moral Situation in Mississippi during Reconstruction The Head of Family's Response to the 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic PART II: A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE: IDA B. WELLS'S CRITIQUE OF LYNCHING Wells on Lynching: An Overview Investigating Facts Interpreting Data Challenging 'Alleged Causes' PART III: BEYOND ROPE AND FAGGOT: A WOMANIST ETHICAL ANALYSIS OF LYNCHING The Issue of Race and Lynching The Social Construction of Gender and Lynching The Intersection of Economics and Lynching PART IV: A PARADIGM SHIFT: REFORMULATING IDA B. WELLS'S 1892 RECOMMENDATION AS RESOURCES FOR A TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY CHRISTIAN ETHIC OF RESISTANCE Re-orientation: Viewing Justice in a Racially Violent World Re-evaluation: Demythologizing Hegemonic Structures Re-interpretation: Defining Hope from a Minority Perspective Just Act: A Mandate to Talk about the Lynched
- ISBN: 978-0-230-62238-8
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 208
- Fecha Publicación: 14/04/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés