Dhariwal said that more than 100 cases of
lynching have been reported from across the country, out which 86 per cent cases have been reported from Rajasthan alone.
The police official said that the number of arrested accused in the
lynching case had now reached 59.
The authors are heirs of a tradition that looks for statistical patterns in
lynching. Although they spend a lot of time on the contribution of similar scholars, they largely overlook documentation by Ida B.
In February 2015, EJI released
Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror, a ground-breaking report that documents more than 4000
lynchings of people of African descent (Black people) in the United States between 1877 and 1950.
The disproportionate incarceration of black men through the criminal justice system and their execution through the death penalty raises the question about whether we continue to practice "legal
lynching" yet today (163).
The second section of Mitchell's book, "Developing a Genre, Asserting Black Citizenship," not only provides compelling analyses of Grimke's Rachel, Dunbar-Nelson's Mine Eyes Have Seen, and Mary Burrill's Aftermath but also powerfully adumbrates the conventions of
lynching plays.
Within a scant two years, numerous books regarding
lynching and all it entails have been published and provide more information than any rational black person probably wants to know.
STAR is a regional network of individuals and organizations focused on examining the history of
lynching in the South and working toward reconciliation in communities where
lynchings have occurred.
The three chapters dealing mainly with the antebellum period form part one, underlined by the molding of the mob violence as a
lynching culture.