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My soul is a witness : the traumatic afterlife of lynching /

Mari N. Crabtree traces the long afterlife of lynching in the South through the traumatic memories it left in its wake. She unearths how African American victims and survivors found ways to live through and beyond the horrors of lynching, offering a theory of African American collective trauma and m...

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Main Author:	Crabtree, Mari N. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2022].
Subjects:	Lynching > United States > History > 20th century. Racism against Black people > United States > History > 20th century. African Americans > Violence against > United States > History > 20th century. African Americans > Crimes against > United States > History > 20th century.

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