Men, Mobs, and Law: Anti-Lynching and Labor Defense in U.S. Radical History

Rebecca Hill

Published by Duke University Press 2008

Men, Mobs, and Law

Anti-Lynching and Labor Defense in U.S. Radical History

Rebecca Hill

In the series e-Duke books scholarly collection

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822381464

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About this book

This very ambitious study reads the American Left by way of its defense campaigns for a range of left-wing heroes including the abolitionists, communists, anarchists and the Panthers.

Author / Editor information

Rebecca N. Hill is Director of the American Studies Master of Arts Program and Associate Professor of History at Kennesaw State University.

Reviews

“‘Do you not understand your own language?’ David Walker famously asked white America. It is an enduring question for activists and scholars of the antiracist left, and one that Rebecca N. Hill engages in this imaginative and provocative study. Men, Mobs, and Law critically compares and connects a series of cases framed by state-sanctioned premature death to disentangle the rhetoric, strategy, and gendered racial politics of radical campaigns for justice that overlay deeper movements for social change.”—Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California

“Men, Mobs, and Law is a brilliant work of scholarship. Rebecca N. Hill argues that anti-lynching and labor-defense movements represent two sides of the same coin, not simply because they share a concern for social justice, but because they embody a fundamental opposition between the mob and the state. Hill draws on the most sophisticated analyses of race, gender, class, history, politics, and literature to reorient our thinking about the meaning of ‘popular justice.’”—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

“Men, Mobs, and Law is a terrific book, which will speak to wide readerships about the functioning of the state, the nature and complexity of movements that have challenged the state, and the problems that race and class pose for traditional conceptions of American democracy. The book is organized around dramatic cases. These are stories that many of us know well, but Rebecca N. Hill’s treatment of them is fresh, lively, richly detailed, and impassioned.”—Peter Rachleff, author of Hard-Pressed in the Heartland: The Hormel Strike and the Future of the Labor Movement

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. John Brown: The Left’s Great Man Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
2. Haymarket Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
3. Anti-Lynching and Labor Defense: Intersections and Contradictions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
4. No Wives or Family Encumber Them: Sacco and Vanzetti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
5. The Communist Party and the Defense Tradition from Scottsboro to the Rosenbergs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
6. Born Guilty: George Jackson and the Return of the Lumpen Hero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	397

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 424
Illustrations
- Other: 7 illustrations

eBook

Published: January 23, 2009
ISBN: 9780822381464