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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Lancaster, Guy, 1976– author.
Title: American atrocity: the types of violence in lynching / Guy Lancaster.
Description: Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 2021. | Includes index. | Summary: “Drawing from the fields of history, philosophy, cognitive science, sociology, and literary theory, and quoting chilling contemporary accounts, historian Guy Lancaster argues that the act of lynching encompasses five distinct but overlapping types of violence”—Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021010730 | ISBN 9781682261866 (paperback) | ISBN 9781610757553 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Lynching—United States—History. | Violence—United States—History. | African Americans—United States—History.
Classification: LCC HV6457 .L35 2021 | DDC 364.1/34—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/202101073