The Lynchers | Social Concerns
Race relations, the nature of power, and the origins of violence all serve to illuminate the central issue in The Lynchers, an examination of society and revolution. Wideman offers a portrait of American society in the 1960s and 1970s as violent, oppressive, racist, spiraling downward to decay and chaos. The protagonists of The Lynchers see their plan to lynch a white policeman as an act of protest and renewal fomenting a revolution which will reverse the power relations between blacks and whites.
Race relations, therefore, are an important social issue addressed in the...
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