Rituals Of Blood: Consequences Of Slavery In Two American Centuries

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.