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03488aam a2200409 i 4500 001 7E25E7406CA011E9A39CB90697128E48 003 SILO 005 20190502010142 008 181119s2019 msua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018054787 020 $a 1496824083 020 $a 9781496824080 020 $a 1496821599 020 $a 9781496821591 035 $a (OCoLC)1061092252 040 $a MsSM/DLC/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCQ $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDX $d BDX $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HV6457 O74 2019 100 1 $a Ore, Ersula J., $e author. 245 10 $a Lynching : $b violence, rhetoric, and American identity / $c Ersula J. Ore. 264 1 $a Jackson : $b University Press of Mississippi, $c [2019] 300 $a xx, 175 pages ; $c 22 cm. 490 1 $a Race, rhetoric, and media series 500 $a "First printing 2019." 500 $a "While victims of antebellum lynchings were typically white men, postbellum lynchings became more frequent and more intense, with the victims more often black. After Reconstruction, lynchings exhibited and embodied links between violent collective action, American civic identity, and the making of the nation. Ersula J. Ore investigates lynching as a racialized practice of civic engagement. Ore scrutinizes the civic roots of lynching, the relationship between lynching and white constitutionalism, and contemporary manifestations of lynching discourse and logic today. From the 1880s onward, lynchings, she finds, manifested a violent form of symbolic action that called a national public into existence, denoted citizenship, and upheld political community. Grounded in Ida B. Wells's summation of lynching as a social contract among whites to maintain a racial order, at its core, Ore's book speaks to racialized violence as a mode of civic engagement. Since violence enacts an argument about citizenship, Ore construes lynching and its expressions as part and parcel of America's rhetorical tradition and political legacy. Drawing upon newspapers, official records, and memoirs, as well as critical race theory, Ore outlines the connections between what was said and written, the material practices of lynching in the past, and the forms these rhetorics and practices assume now. In doing so, she demonstrates how lynching functioned as a strategy interwoven with the formation of America's national identity and with the nation's need to continually restrict and redefine that identity. In addition, Ore ties black resistance to lynching, the acclaimed exhibit Without Sanctuary, recent police brutality, effigies of Barack Obama, and the killing of Trayvon Martin."--:Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Preface: Death wish -- Introduction: a rhetoric of civic belonging -- Constituting the citizen race -- A lesson in civics -- A past not yet passed -- Lynching in the age of Obama -- Conclusion: civics lessons continued -- Postscript: caught up. 650 0 $a Lynching $z United States $x History. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Ore, Ersula J. $t Lynching. $d Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2019] $z 9781496821607 $w (DLC) 2018057399 830 0 $a Race, rhetoric, and media series. 941 $a 3 952 $l USUX851 $d 20220202015345.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20200319010331.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214021059.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7E25E7406CA011E9A39CB90697128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search