A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature by Jacqueline Goldsby

A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature

Jacqueline Goldsby

384 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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This incisive study takes on one of the grimmest secrets in America's national life—the history of lynching and, more generally, the public punishment of African Americans. Jacqueline Goldsby shows that lynching cannot be explained away as a pheno...

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