Christopher Waldrep

Biographic Data

ID977487
NAMEChristopher Waldrep
GIVEN NAMESChristopher
FAMILY NAMEWaldrep
SIGNATUREWALDREP C
AFFILIATIONSSan Francisco State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS46
TOTAL CITATIONS17
AUTHOR COUNT45
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1986
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
H-INDEX2

  • Swift to Wrath: Lynching in Global Historical Perspective

    William D Carrigan, Christopher WaldrepBOOKSwift to Wrath2013

  • The Use and Abuse of the Law: Public Opinion and United Methodist Church Trials of Ministers Performing Same-Sex Union Ceremonies

    Open AccessChristopher WaldrepARTICLELaw and History Review2012References: 5

    Law in the United Methodist Church (UMC) is a product of democracy, written by elected delegates to a legislative body, recorded in a book entitled The Book of Discipline of the United Methodist Church . As “a Book of Law,” the Book of Discipline is “the only official and authoritative Book of Law of The Methodist Church,” according to the Methodist Church's Judicial Council in a landmark 1953 ruling. Despite this declaration, the Judicial Counci…

  • The Promises of Liberty: The History and Contemporary Relevance of the Thirteenth Amendment

    Christopher WaldrepARTICLEJournal of American History2011Cited by: 1

    This book is intended for students of law rather than history. The first half of the book brings together an all-star cast of historians to succinctly summarize their work on the Thirteenth Amendment. Quite often the essays offer crisp insights and provocative thinking. David Brion Davis starts things off with an appropriately grim analysis of the barriers to emancipation before the Civil War. William M. Wiecek finds in the 1772 King's Bench deci…

  • Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890–1940

    Christopher WaldrepARTICLEAmerican Nineteenth Century History2009

    AMY LOUISE WOOD Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009 Pp. 384, $39.95 (hbk), ISBN 978 0 8078 3254 7 The best sentence in Lynching and Spectacle is the last one: “In detaching images

  • African Americans Confront Lynching: Strategies of Resistance from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Era

    Christopher WaldrepBOOKAfrican Americans confront lynching2008

    This book examines African Americans' strategies for resisting white racial violence from the Civil War until the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968 and up to the Clinton era. Christopher Waldrep's semi-biographical approach to the pioneers in the anti-lynching campaign portrays African Americans as active participants in the effort to end racial violence rather than as passive victims. In telling this more than 100-year-old story …

  • National Policing, Lynching, and Constitutional Change

    Christopher WaldrepARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2008Cited by: 2

    IT COMES AS NO SURPRISE TO LEARN THAT THROUGH THE 1920S AND 1930s, national government insisted it had no jurisdiction to investigate lynching and instead waged a campaign against black militancy. greater surprise to historians comes from period between 1940 and 1952, when Department of Justice (DOJ) abruptly reversed itself and sent agents of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) into South to investigate reported lynchings. (1) For good reason,…

  • Vicksburg's Long Shadow: The Civil War Legacy of Race and Remembrance

    Sarah J Purcell, Christopher WaldrepARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2007

    Introduction Prologue Chapter 1: War Chapter 2: Meaning of the Civil War in Reconstruction Chapter 3: Generals' War Chapter 4: Boys from Iowa Chapter 5: Great Reunion Chapter 6: A Farewell to Arms Chapter 7: A New Deal Epilogue Appendix 1: Herman Lieb's Report on Milliken's Bend Appendix 2: The Battle of Milliken's Bend, by David Cornwell Appendix 3: Reported Lynchings in Warren County, Mississippi Appendix 4: State Monuments on the Vicksburg Bat…

  • Lynching in America: A History in Documents

    Dominic J Capeci, Christopher WaldrepARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2007

    The First Lynchers2. Jacksonian America3. Slavery 4. How the West Was Won5. Civil War and Reconstruction 6. The Gilded Age: Shall the Wheel of Race Agitation Be Stopped?7. State Sovereignty and Mob Law 8. Western Lynching in an Industrializing Age9. The Limits of Progressive Reform10. Federal Law against Mob Law11. The New DealIndex About the Editor

  • Lynching in the West: 1850-1935

    Christopher Waldrep, Ken Gonzales-Day et al.ARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2007

    Journal Article Lynching in the West: 1850–1935 Get access Lynching in the West: 1850–1935. By Gonzales-Day Ken. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. xii + 299 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $22.95, paper.) Christopher Waldrep Christopher Waldrep San Francisco State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 38, Issue 4, Winter 2007, Pag…

  • Carnival of Blood: Dueling, Lynching, and Murder in South Carolina, 1880-1920

    Christopher WaldrepARTICLEJournal of American History2006

    This book is two chapters of lynching analysis surrounded by nine chapters that mostly describe rather than explain murder in South Carolina. The first chapter narrates an 1880 duel between William McCreight Shannon and Ellerbe Boggan Crawford Cash. Four years later, in the next chapter, Cash's son killed a town marshal after the officer arrested him for drunkenness. In constructing his narratives, John Hammond Moore uses manuscript collections, …

  • Tobacco Harvest: An Elegy

    Christopher WaldrepARTICLEAgricultural History2006

    Book Review| January 01 2006 Tobacco Harvest: An Elegy Tobacco Harvest: An Elegy. James Baker Hall and Wendell Berry. Christopher Waldrep Christopher Waldrep Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2006) 80 (1): 130–131. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-80.1.130 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Christopher Waldrep; Tobacco Harvest: An Elegy. Agricultural History 1 Ja…

  • Raw, Quivering Flesh’: John G. Cashman’s ‘Pornographic’ Constitutionalism Designed to Produce an ‘Aversion and Detestation’, 1883–1904

    Christopher WaldrepARTICLEAmerican Nineteenth Century History2005

    From 1883 until 1914 Vicksburg newspaper editor John G. Cashman campaigned against lynching. Later writers sometimes misrepresented Cashman, picturing him as a pro‐lynching pornographer, glorying in gory descriptions of black sufferings. But Cashman meant to shock the sensibilities of white readers by depicting the true barbarity of mob violence. Cashman opposed lynching not out of any empathy for Mississippi's black population, but because mob v…

  • Rape and Race in the Nineteenth-Century South

    Christopher Waldrep, Diane Miller SommervilleARTICLEAmerican Journal of Legal History2005

    Journal Article Rape and Race in the Nineteenth-Century South Get access Sommerville Diane Miller. Rape and Race in the Nineteenth-Century South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xiii, 411 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Christopher Waldrep Christopher Waldrep San Francisco State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 47, Issue 3, July…

  • Lynching in America: A History in Documents

    Michael J Pfeifer, Michael Pfeifer et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Legal History2005

    Lynching in America: A History in Documents Get access Waldrep Christopher, ed. Lynching in America: A History in Documents. New York: New York University Press, 2006. xxii, 281 pp. $24.00. Michael J. Pfeifer Michael J. Pfeifer University of Western Ontario Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 47, Issue 4, October 2005, Pages 454–455, https://doi.org/10.2307/30039563 Pu…

  • Lynching in Colorado, 1859-1919

    Glenn Feldman, Stephen J Leonard et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2004

  • Local Matters: Race, Crime, and Justice in the Nineteenth-Century South

    Eric W Rise, Christopher Waldrep et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2003

    Justice blind to - or blinded by - race Drawing on previously untapped sources, these nine community studies represent some of the best new work on how racial can be shaped by the particulars of time and place. Although each essay is anchored the local, several larger themes emerge across the volume - such as the importance of personality and place, the movement of former slaves from the capriciousness of plantation justice to the (theoretically)…

  • Local Matters: Race, Crime, and Justice in the Nineteenth-Century South

    Judith Kilpatrick, Christopher Waldrep et al.ARTICLEThe Arkansas Historical Quarterly2002

  • The Many Faces of Judge Lynch: Extralegal Violence and Punishment in America

    Open AccessChristopher WaldrepBOOKMany Faces of Judge Lynch2002

    The U.S. is the most violent industrialized country in the world, and lynching - that is, murder endorsed by the community - may be a key to understanding America's heritage of violence and perhaps po

  • Oah Abc-Clio America: History and Life Award

    Open AccessMary Bagne, Mia Bay et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban History2002

  • Local Matters: Race, Crime, and Justice in the Nineteenth-Century South

    Dickson D Bruce, Christopher Waldrep et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2002

    In the face of Alexis de Tocqueville's concerns about the dangers of American democracy, Christopher Waldrep and Donald G. Nieman note, he found hope in an American appreciation for constitutionalism and the law. America's legalism, he believed, should prevent the realization of what he saw as the potential for majoritarian tyranny in a democratic nation. In this collection of essays, Local Matters, the editors Waldrep and Nieman have provided, f…

  • Local Matters: Race, Crime, and Justice in the Nineteenth-Century South

    Donald G Nieman, Laura Edwards et al.BOOKLocal Matters2001

  • Roots of Disorder: Race and Criminal Justice in the American South, 1817-80

    David M Oshinsky, Christopher WaldrepARTICLEThe American Historical Review2001

    Every white southerner understood what keeping African Americans down meant and what it did not mean. It did not mean going to court; it did not mean relying on the law. It meant vigilante violence and lynching.Looking at Vicksburg, Mississippi, Roots of Disorder traces the origins of these terrible attitudes to the day-to-day operations of local courts. In Vicksburg, white exploitation of black labor through slavery evolved into efforts to use t…

  • Rethinking Southern Violence: Homicides in Post-Civil War Louisiana, 1866-1884

    Christopher Waldrep, Gilles VandalARTICLEJournal of American History2001Cited by: 2

    Journal Article Rethinking Southern Violence: Homicides in Post-Civil War Louisiana, 1866–1884. By Gilles Vandal. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2000. x, 319 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-8142-0838-X. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8142-5041-6.) Get access Christopher Waldrep Christopher Waldrep San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Histor…

  • War of Words: The Controversy over the Definition of Lynching, 1899-1940

    Christopher WaldrepARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2000Cited by: 10

  • Roots of Disorder: Race and Criminal Justice in the American South, 1817-80

    J William Harris, Joanne Harris et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2000