Lynched: The Power of Memory in a Culture of Terror - Softcover

Angela D. Sims (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1481306049 ISBN 13: 9781481306041

Publisher: Baylor University Press, 2017

Synopsis

Lynched  chronicles the history and aftermath of lynching in America. By rooting her work in oral histories, Angela D. Sims gives voice to the memories of African American elders who remember lynching not only as individual acts but as a culture of violence, domination, and fear.  Lynched  preserves memory even while it provides an analysis of the meaning of those memories. Sims examines the relationship between lynching and the interconnected realities of race, gender, class, and other social fragmentations that ultimately shape a person's--and a community's--religious self-understanding. Through this understanding, she explores how the narrators reconcile their personal and communal memory of lynching with their lived Christian experience. Moreover, Sims unearths the community's truth that this is sometimes a story of words and at other times a story of silence.  Revealing the bond between memory and moral formation, Sims discovers the courage and hope inherent in the power of recall. By tending to the words of these witnesses,  Lynched  exposes not only a culture of fear and violence but the practice of story and memory, as well as the narrative of hope within a renewed possibility for justice.

About this title

About the Author

Angela D. Sims is President of Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School.

Edition details

• Publisher: Baylor University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1481306049
• ISBN 13: 9781481306041
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 213