A review by assimbya
Rituals Of Blood: The Consequences Of Slavery In Two American Centuries by Orlando Patterson

2.0

Rating this book is difficult; the second essay (which is a searing, unflinching analysis of the ritualistic aspects of lynching) definitely deserves four stars, but Patterson's methods of analysis in the first and third troubled me. I'm still planning to read On Slavery and Social Death, but I need to spend some time pondering Patterson's subject position and methodology.