Exorcising Blackness: Historical and Literary Lynching and Burning Rituals by Trudier Harris
Exorcising Blackness: Historical and Literary Lynching and Burning Rituals

Trudier Harris

Exorcising Blackness: Historical and Literary Lynching and Burning Rituals

Trudier Harris

240 pages first pub 1984 (editions)

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By lynching, burning, castrating, raping, and mutilating black people, contends Trudier Harris, white Americans were perfomring a rite of exorcism designed to eradicate the "black beast" from their midst, or, at the very least, to render him power...

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