![]() ![]() Revealing the bond between memory and moral formation, Sims discovers the courage and hope inherent in the power of recall. Moreover, Sims unearths the community's truth that this is sometimes a story of words and at other times a story of silence. Through this understanding, she explores how the narrators reconcile their personal and communal memory of lynching with their lived Christian experience. ![]() Sims examines the relationship between lynching and the interconnected realities of race, gender, class, and other social fragmentations that ultimately shape a person's - and a community's - religious self-understanding. ![]() Lynched preserves memory even while it provides an analysis of the meaning of those memories. Sims gives voice to the memories of African American elders who remember lynching not only as individual acts but as a culture of violence, domination, and fear. By rooting her work in oral histories, Angela D. This book chronicles the history and aftermath of lynching in America. ![]() Lessons, concerns, hopes: Embodying an ethic of resilient resistance. Unrelenting tenacity: In the shadow of the lynching tree Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-180) and index.Įchoes of a not so distant past: African Americans remember lynchingĬourageous truth telling: Historical remembrance as an ethical-theological mandateįaithful witness: Oral narratives and human agency Lynched : the power of memory in a culture of terror / Angela D. Request This Author Sims, Angela D., author. ![]()
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