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Blood at the Root: Lynching As American Cultural Nucleus
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Hardcover
from State Univ of New York Pr (August 31, 2011)
9781438436296 | details & prices | 217 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.96 lbs | List price $75.00
About: In Blood at the Root, winner of the SUNY Press 2009 Dissertation/First Book Prize in African American Studies, Jennie Lightweis-Goff examines the centrality of lynching to American culture, focusing particularly on the ways in which literature, popular culture, and art have constructed the illusion of secrecy and obsolescence to conceal the memory of violence.
About: In Blood at the Root, winner of the SUNY Press 2009 Dissertation/First Book Prize in African American Studies, Jennie Lightweis-Goff examines the centrality of lynching to American culture, focusing particularly on the ways in which literature, popular culture, and art have constructed the illusion of secrecy and obsolescence to conceal the memory of violence.