Lynched represents the culmination of qualitative research Dr. It has always been necessary for black people to say that black lives matter. Sims’s book Lynched connects these dots, demonstrating a trajectory from a not so distant past to the present. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.Throughout our history, the dominant culture has created a culture of terror in tandem with an ideology of inferiority and a mythological (as in fictional) fear of black bodies that has resulted in state sanctioned lynching and neo-lynching of black men, women, children and some of their allies. Sims offers ethical insights that shed light on lynching culture and how we continue to experience its effects today. (Katie Grimes Horizons: The Journal of the College Theology Society) But in explicating the theological, sacramental, ethical, and ecclesiological significance of these memories, Sims makes a vital contribution to the field of theology as well. Sims’ Lynched should be considered required reading for every US citizen. Simply for the way it collects and preserves the stories of dozens of African American survivors of the lynching era, Angela D. Riggs Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology) The testimonies of the African American elders are replete with biblical allusions and comparisons, such as the failure to love one’s neighbor, the suffering servant, the road to Calvary, and the trek to the lynching tree. Using oral histories, Sims provides the Christian community with a canon of testimonies that illustrate the scriptural imperative to walk by faith and not by sight.

'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. Revealing the bond between memory and moral formation, Sims discovers the courage and hope inherent in the power of recall. By tending to the words of these witnesses, Lynched exposes not only a culture of fear and violence but the practice of story and memory, as well as the narrative of hope within a renewed possibility for justice. 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. Lynched preserves memory even while it provides an analysis of the meaning of those memories. 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. 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. Lynched chronicles the history and aftermath of lynching in America.

Lynched by Angela D. Sims