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"Miller's ideas flow freely from the injustices of lynch mobs of the past to the legal lynching in courts of the present as he meticulously analyzes almost 40 of Hughes' poems. The reader will definitely gain further insights into and understanding of Hughes' poetry as well as the history of lynching, an understudied part of the U.S.'s dark past."
--CHOICE Magazine

"Miller invites readers to take a more acute journey than ever before through the racially charged writings of the incomparable Langston Hughes….a captivating study of cultural practice that haunted American society for decades and reveals a man who releaseed the painful feelings of his people through his brilliant writing." "Highly recommended."
--CHOICE

“Compelling and forward-looking…expand[s] our appreciation of how the wounds and scars of lynching have shaped our national conscience and identity.”
--Southern Literary Journal

“A tightly constructed study that draws on a range of fields… this highly readable book… deftly tracks the shifting meanings and uses of lynching through careful attention to Hughes’s extensive body of work.”
--College Literature

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