Slavery abolished, lynchings began in the United States

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Slavery abolished, lynchings began in the United States

It was in order to " ensure democracy in the world" that the United States engaged in the First World War when the racial segregation of the South was more meticulous than the future Nazi laws of Nuremberg. In this second part of the good pages of "Jim Crow. The Caste Terrorism in America", Loïc Wacquant analyses this political and repressive system that survived until the 1960s.