Final Thoughts on the State of the Field of Lynching Scholarship

Final Thoughts on the State of the Field of Lynching Scholarship

Pfeifer talks about the state of the field of lynching history which raise important issues for scholars to consider as they shape the direction of their research on lynching. Capital punishment was already racialized and prominent in the nineteenth century, but lynching and the death penalty noneth...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Journal of American history (Bloomington, Ind.) Ind.), 2014-12, Vol.101 (3), p.859-860
1. Verfasser: Pfeifer, Michael J.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
American history
Capital punishment
Lynchings
Reforms
Reinforcement
State of the Field: American Lynching History
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Zusammenfassung:Pfeifer talks about the state of the field of lynching history which raise important issues for scholars to consider as they shape the direction of their research on lynching. Capital punishment was already racialized and prominent in the nineteenth century, but lynching and the death penalty nonetheless developed in a profoundly interwoven discourse beginning with capital punishment reform and the emergence of the lynching of slaves in the antebellum era.
ISSN:0021-8723
1936-0967
1945-2314
DOI:10.1093/jahist/jau641