Our Town A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America【電子書籍】[ Cynthia Carr ]

＜p＞The brutal lynching of two young black men in Marion, Indiana, on August 7, 1930, cast a shadow over the town that still lingers. It is only one event in the long and complicated history of race relations in Marion, a history much ignored and considered by many to be best forgotten. But the lynching cannot be forgotten. It is too much a part of the fabric of Marion, too much ingrained even now in the minds of those who live there. In ＜em＞Our Town＜/em＞ journalist Cynthia Carr explores the issues of race, loyalty, and memory in America through the lens of a specific hate crime that occurred in Marion but could have happened anywhere.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Marion is our town, America’s town, and its legacy is our legacy.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Like everyone in Marion, Carr knew the basic details of the lynching even as a child: three black men were arrested for attempted murder and rape, and two of them were hanged in the courthouse square, a fate the third miraculously escaped. Meeting James Cameron?the man who’d s．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る