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Cultures of violence: Lynching and Racial Killing in South Africa and the American South
ISBN: 9781847792945
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Manchester University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: History;

Deals with the inherent violence of "race relations" in 2 important countries that remain iconic expressions of white supremacy in the 20th century. Cultures of violence does not just reconstruct the era of violence. Instead it convincingly contrasts the "lynch culture" of the American South to the "bureaucratic culture of violence" in S. Africa.

Ivan Evans is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California San DiegoIvan Evans is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California San Diego