The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 19: Violence

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 19: Violence
ISBN-10
0807869287
ISBN-13
9780807869284
Series
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Category
Reference
Pages
320
Language
English
Published
2011-11-14
Publisher
Univ of North Carolina Press
Author
Amy Louise Wood

Description

Much of the violence that has been associated with the United States has had particular salience for the South, from its high homicide rates, or its bloody history of racial conflict, to southerners' popular attachment to guns and traditional support for capital punishment. With over 95 entries, this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture explores the most significant forms and many of the most harrowing incidences of violence that have plagued southern society over the past 300 years. Following a detailed overview by editor Amy Wood, the volume explores a wide range of topics, such as violence against and among American Indians, labor violence, arson, violence and memory, suicide, and anti-abortion violence. Taken together, these entries broaden our understanding of what has driven southerners of various classes and various ethnicities to commit acts of violence, while addressing the ways in which southerners have conceptualized that violence, responded to it, or resisted it. This volume enriches our understanding of the culture of violence and its impact on ideas about law and crime, about historical tradition and social change, and about race and gender--not only in the South but in the nation as a whole.

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