Ethical Complications Of Lynching: Ida B. Wells’s Interrogation Of American Terror (black Religion/womanist Thought/social Justice)

In an increasingly globalized economy, Sims argues that Ida B. Wells s fight against lynching is a viable option to address systemic forms of oppression. More than a century since Wells launched her anti-lynching campaign, an examination of her work questions America s use of lynching as a tool to regulate behavior and the manner in which public opinion is shaped and lived out in the private sector. Ethical Complications of Lynching highlights the residual effects of lynching as a twenty-first century moral impediment in the fight to actualize ethical possibilities. Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Prologue....Pages 1-3 Introduction....Pages 5-17 Front Matter....Pages 19-20 Black Slave Family’s Moral Situation in Mississippi during the Civil War....Pages 21-25 Freed-Person of Color’s Moral Situation in Mississippi during Reconstruction....Pages 27-33 Head of Family’s Response to the 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic....Pages 35-39 Front Matter....Pages 41-43 Wells on Lynching: An Overview....Pages 45-48 Investigating Facts....Pages 49-61 Interpreting Data....Pages 63-68 Challenging “Alleged Causes”....Pages 69-74 Front Matter....Pages 75-78 The Issue of Race and Lynching....Pages 79-86 The Social Construction of Gender and Lynching....Pages 87-90 The Intersection of Economics and Lynching....Pages 91-96 Front Matter....Pages 97-99 Re-Orientation: Viewing Justice in a Racially Violent World....Pages 101-112 Re-Evaluation: Demythologizing Hegemonic Structures....Pages 113-118 Re-Interpretation: Defining Hope from a Minority Perspective....Pages 119-125 Just Act: A Mandate to Talk about the Lynched....Pages 127-134 Back Matter....Pages 135-194 "We all know about the horrors of lynching, but Sims takes us beyond the obvious by conducting a thorough analysis of the motivations leading to and cultural consequences of this technique of discipline. The richness of this book is that the analysis is done through the eyes of Ida B. Wells, who serves as a model upon whom to construct ethical paradigms indigenous to the African American community."--Miguel A. De La Torre, Associate Professor of Social Ethics, Iliff School of Theology, Denver This Project Examines Ida B. Wells's Ethical Interrogation Of America's Infatuation With Terror. By Angela D. Sims.