Lineaments of Wrath : Race, Violent Crime and American Culture by James W. ...

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The Lineaments of WrathRace, Violent Crime and American Culture\nAuthor(s): James W. Clarke\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Inc, United Kingdom\nImprint: Transaction Publishers\nISBN-13: 9780765808738, 978-0765808738\nSynopsis\nViolence has marked relations between blacks and whites in America for nearly four hundred years. In The Lineaments of Wrath, James W. Clarke draws upon behavioral science theory and primary historical evidence to examine and explain its causes and enduring consequences.\n\nBeginning with slavery and concluding with the present, Clarke describes how the combined effects of state-sanctioned mob violence and the discriminatory administration of \""race-blind\"" criminal and contract labor laws terrorized and immobilized the black population in the post-emancipation South. In this fashion an agricultural system, based on debt peonage and convict labor, quickly replaced slavery and remained the back-bone of the region's economy well into the twen.