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

A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature

Jacqueline Goldsby

418 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 phen...

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