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Rituals of blood : consequences of slavery in two American centuries

Author: Orlando Patterson
Publisher: New York : Basic Civitas, ©1998.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This book discusses survey data of the attitudes, behaviors, and circumstances of Afro-American men and women; the lynching of Afro-American boys and men during the decades after Reconstruction; and an investigation of the various images of Afro-American men portrayed by the media.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Orlando Patterson
ISBN: 158243039X 9781582430393 1887178821 9781887178822
OCLC Number: 55669024
Description: xxii, 330 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Broken bloodlines: gender relations and the crisis of marriages and families among Afro-Americans --
Feast of blood: "race," religion, and human sacrifice in the postbellum South --
American Dionysus: images of Afro-American men at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
Responsibility: Orlando Patterson.

Abstract:

This book discusses survey data of the attitudes, behaviors, and circumstances of Afro-American men and women; the lynching of Afro-American boys and men during the decades after Reconstruction; and an investigation of the various images of Afro-American men portrayed by the media.

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