Rituals Of Blood: Consequences Of Slavery In Two American Centuries

ISBN: 1887178821

Author: Patterson, Orlando

Condition: New

Comprises three new essays by the Harvard scholar and specialist on the history, sociology, and culture of Americans descended from slaves. Patterson argues that male-female relations are now in a state of crisis, finds elements of Christian sacrificial symbolism in the lynching of Afro-American boys and men after Reconstruction, and investigates the images of Afro-American men in the current media. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.