Ethical Complications of Lynching

Download or read book Ethical Complications of Lynching written by A. Sims and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-03-29 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an increasingly globalized economy, Sims argues that Ida B. Wells s fight against lynching is a viable option to address systemic forms of oppression. More than a century since Wells launched her anti-lynching campaign, an examination of her work questions America s use of lynching as a tool to regulate behavior and the manner in which public opinion is shaped and lived out in the private sector. Ethical Complications of Lynching highlights the residual effects of lynching as a twenty-first century moral impediment in the fight to actualize ethical possibilities.