American Pogroms How Forgotten Massacres Shape America | 5.39 MB
Title: American Pogroms How Forgotten Massacres Shape America
Author: Daniel Byman
Category: Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Politics, History & Theory, Social Science
Language: English | 288 Pages | ISBN: 9780197788783
Description:
Amidst heightened rhetoric and increasing polarization in the United States, American Pogroms chronicles the causes and consequences of two centuries of mob violence in American history, highlighting exactly what's at stake when we allow leaders to legitimate violence and the mob to rule. For much of American history, members of the majority population of the United States indiscriminately attacked and terrorized minority communities. In some parts of the country, mob violence seemed a near-constant part of the region's history, while in others it was a brief, horrific spasm that perpetrators-but not victims-quickly forgot. In American Pogroms, terrorism expert Daniel Byman argues that there is a word for this type of communal violence: pogrom. Although pogroms are historically associated with the orchestrated campaigns of anti-Jewish violence in Tsarist Russia, Byman asserts that pogroms have been an all-too-frequent feature of American history. Tracing two centuries...
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