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Ethical Complications of Lynching

Ida B. Wells’s Interrogation of American Terror

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  1. Angela D. Sims
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Part of the book series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice (BRWT)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Prologue

    1. Prologue

      • Angela D. Sims
      Pages 1-3

    2. Introduction

      • Angela D. Sims
      Pages 5-17

  3. Identity and Formation: Character Development and the Shaping of a “Crusader for Justice”

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-20
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    2. Black Slave Family’s Moral Situation in Mississippi during the Civil War

      • Angela D. Sims
      Pages 21-25

    3. Freed-Person of Color’s Moral Situation in Mississippi during Reconstruction

      • Angela D. Sims
      Pages 27-33

    4. Head of Family’s Response to the 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic

      • Angela D. Sims
      Pages 35-39

  4. A Matter of Perspective: Ida B. Wells’s Critique of Lynching

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-43
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    2. Wells on Lynching: An Overview

      • Angela D. Sims
      Pages 45-48

    3. Investigating Facts

      • Angela D. Sims
      Pages 49-61

    4. Interpreting Data

      • Angela D. Sims
      Pages 63-68

    5. Challenging “Alleged Causes”

      • Angela D. Sims
      Pages 69-74

  5. Beyond Rope and Fagot: A Womanist Ethical Analysis of Lynching

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-78
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    2. The Issue of Race and Lynching

      • Angela D. Sims
      Pages 79-86

    3. The Social Construction of Gender and Lynching

      • Angela D. Sims
      Pages 87-90

    4. The Intersection of Economics and Lynching

      • Angela D. Sims
      Pages 91-96

  6. A Paradigm Shift: Resources for a Christian Ethic of Resistance in the Works of Ida B.Wells

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-99
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    2. Re-Orientation: Viewing Justice in a Racially Violent World

      • Angela D. Sims
      Pages 101-112

    3. Re-Evaluation: Demythologizing Hegemonic Structures

      • Angela D. Sims
      Pages 113-118

    4. Re-Interpretation: Defining Hope from a Minority Perspective

      • Angela D. Sims
      Pages 119-125
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About this book

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.

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"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

About the author

ANGELA D. SIMS is Assistant Professor of Ethics and Black Church Studies at the Saint Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.

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