Ethical Complications of Lynching: Ida B. Wells's Interrogation of American Terror (Black Religion Womanist Thought Social Justice)

Contents......Page 8
Series Editors’ Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 14
Prologue......Page 16
Introduction......Page 20
Part One: Identity and Formation: Character Development and the Shaping of a “Crusader for Justice”......Page 34
One: Black Slave Family’s Moral Situation in Mississippi during the Civil War......Page 36
Two: Freed-Person of Color’s Moral Situation in Mississippi during Reconstruction......Page 42
Three: Head of Family’s Response to the 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic......Page 50
Part Two: A Matter of Perspective: Ida B. Wells’s Critique of Lynching......Page 56
Four: Wells on Lynching: An Overview......Page 60
Five: Investigating Facts......Page 64
Six: Interpreting Data......Page 78
Seven: Challenging “Alleged Causes”......Page 84
Part Three: Beyond Rope and Fagot: A Womanist Ethical Analysis of Lynching......Page 90
Eight: The Issue of Race and Lynching......Page 94
Nine: The Social Construction of Gender and Lynching......Page 102
Ten: The Intersection of Economics and Lynching......Page 106
Part Four: A Paradigm Shift: Resources for a Christian Ethic of Resistance in the Works of Ida B. Wells......Page 112
Eleven: Re-Orientation: Viewing Justice in a Racially Violent World......Page 116
Twelve: Re-Evaluation: Demythologizing Hegemonic Structures......Page 128
Thirteen: Re-Interpretation: Defining Hope from a Minority Perspective......Page 134
Fourteen: Just Act: A Mandate to Talk about the Lynched......Page 142
Notes......Page 150
Bibliography......Page 186
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