About the Author

Simon Wendt is assistant professor of American studies at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany. He is the author of The Spirit and the Shotgun: Armed Resistance and the Struggle for Civil Rights and coeditor of a number of books, including Globalizing Lynching History: Vigilantism and Extralegal Punishment from an International Perspective and Masculinities and the Nation in the Modern World: Between Hegemony and Marginalization.