Beyond the Rope: The Impact of Lynching on Black Culture and Memory (Cambridge Studies on the American South)

Beyond The Rope Is An Interdisciplinary Study That Draws On Narrative Theory And Cultural Studies Methodologies To Trace African Americans' Changing Attitudes And Relationships To Lynching Over The Twentieth Century. Whereas African Americans Are Typically Framed As Victims Of White Lynch Mob Violence In Both Scholarly And Public Discourses, Karlos K. Hill Reveals That In The Late Nineteenth And Early Twentieth Centuries African Americans Lynched Other African Americans In Response To Alleged Criminality, And That Twentieth-century Black Writers Envisaged African American Lynch Victims As Exemplars Of Heroic Manhood. By Illuminating The Submerged Histories Of Black Vigilantism And Consolidating Narratives Of Lynching In African American Literature That Framed Black Victims Of White Lynch Mob Violence As Heroic, Hill Argues That Rather Than Being Static And One Dimensional, African American Attitudes Towards Lynching And The Lynched Black Evolved In Response To Changing Social And Political Contexts. Machine Generated Contents Note: 1.black Vigilantism -- 2.resisting Lynching -- 3.if We Must Die -- 4.remembering Lynching. Karlos K. Hill. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 123-141) And Index. "Beyond the Rope is an interdisciplinary study that draws on narrative theory and cultural studies methodologies to trace African Americans' changing attitudes and relationships to lynching over the twentieth century. Whereas African Americans are typically framed as victims of white lynch mob violence in both scholarly and public discourses, Karlos K. Hill reveals that in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries African Americans lynched other African Americans in response to alleged criminality, and that twentieth-century black writers envisaged African American lynch victims as exemplars of heroic manhood. By illuminating the submerged histories of black vigilantism and consolidating narratives of lynching in African American literature that framed black victims of white lynch mob violence as heroic, Hill argues that rather than being static and one dimensional, African American attitudes towards lynching and the lynched black evolved in response to changing social and political contexts"--Publisher's description 01.0_pp_i_vi_Frontmatter 02.0_pp_vii_vii_Contents 03.0_pp_viii_viii_List_of_Tables_and_Figures 04.0_pp_ix_x_Acknowledgments 05.0_pp_1_14_Introduction 06.0_pp_15_38_Black_Vigilantism 07.0_pp_39_68_Resisting_Lynching 08.0_pp_69_103_If_We_Must_Die 09.0_pp_104_118_Remembering_Lynching 10.0_pp_119_122_Conclusion 11.0_pp_123_142_References 12.0_pp_143_145_Index