The Color of the Third Degree - Silvan Niedermeier - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk
Uncovers the still-hidden history of police torture in the Jim Crow South. Based on a wide array of previously neglected archival sources, Silvan Niedermeier argues that as public lynching decreased, less visible practices of racial subjugation and repression became central to southern white supremacy.