Beyond the Rope: The Impact of Lynching on Black Culture and Memory

✍ Scribed by Karlos K Hill

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 155
• Series: Cambridge Studies on the American South
• Edition: Reprint
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Beyond the Rope is an interdisciplinary study that draws on narrative theory and cultural studies methodologies to trace African Americans' changing attitudes and relationships to lynching over the twentieth century. Whereas African Americans are typically framed as victims of white lynch mob violence in both scholarly and public discourses, Karlos K. Hill reveals that in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries African Americans lynched other African Americans in response to alleged criminality, and that twentieth-century black writers envisaged African American lynch victims as exemplars of heroic manhood. By illuminating the submerged histories of black vigilantism and consolidating narratives of lynching in African American literature that framed black victims of white lynch mob violence as heroic, Hill argues that rather than being static and one dimensional, African American attitudes towards lynching and the lynched black evolved in response to changing social and political contexts.

✦ Table of Contents

01.0_pp_i_vi_Frontmatter
02.0_pp_vii_vii_Contents
03.0_pp_viii_viii_List_of_Tables_and_Figures
04.0_pp_ix_x_Acknowledgments
05.0_pp_1_14_Introduction
06.0_pp_15_38_Black_Vigilantism
07.0_pp_39_68_Resisting_Lynching
08.0_pp_69_103_If_We_Must_Die
09.0_pp_104_118_Remembering_Lynching
10.0_pp_119_122_Conclusion
11.0_pp_123_142_References
12.0_pp_143_145_Index