ISBN:
9780190232573
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 214 S.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2015 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Series Statement:
Political science
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Kato, Daniel Liberalizing lynching
DDC:
364.134
Keywords:
Lynching Government policy
;
History
;
United States
;
Lynching History
;
Southern States
;
African Americans Crimes against
;
History
;
Federal government History
;
United States
;
United States Race relations
;
History
;
Lynchjustiz
;
Rassismus
;
USA
;
Regierung
;
Geschichte 1870-1970
Abstract:
This study explores the relationship between the American liberal regime and the illiberal act of lynching. It explores the federal government's pattern of non-intervention regarding the lynchings of African Americans from the late 19th century to the 1960s. Although popular belief holds that the federal government was unable to address racial violence in the South, Kato argues that its actions and decisions show that federal inaction was not primarily a consequence of institutional or legal incapacities, but rather a decision supported and maintained by all three branches of the federal government.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190232573.001.0001
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