¶ … Vincent Vinikas' review of Dominic J. Capeci's The Lynching of Cleo Wright takes a critical stance toward Capeci's account of the case of Cleo Wright, a black man who was lynched in Missouri in 1942. Rather than examining the underlying causes concerning why lynching took place (particularly as late as 1942), Vinikas restricts his focus to elucidating logical fallacies that hinder Capeci's article. Vinikas argues that it is lamentable that even in books that purportedly reveal information concerning actual lynching cases, the true facts involved in such cases is never truthfully revealed, such that the public is still not privy to crucial information that colors America's history. In contrast, in her article "An Outrageous Proceeding: A Northern Lynching and the Enforcement of Anti-Lynching Legislation in Illinois, 1905-1910" Stacy Pratt McDermott applies a more comprehensive approach, determining the cultural forces that promoted lynching and made it incredibly difficult to abolish. Consequently, McDermott's article provides a more thorough explication of exactly why lynching took place and the forces that made its popularity difficult to overthrow. Vinikas' article begins with a basic summary of the lynching of Cleo Wright. The author provides particularly graphic details of the incident, including that Wright's leg was attached to the back of an automobile and driven through the streets, as well as the fact that Wright was stripped, covered in gasoline, and subsequently burned. The decision to provide such graphic details is particularly shocking, and to a degree, this validates Vinikas' approach in the article to decry how the specific details concerning who was to blame in the Cleo Wright case have never been fully unearthed. Vinikas criticizes Capeci for claiming to provide authoritative information concerning the case while never revealing the identity of the actual lynchers. However, it is perhaps excessive to liken Capeci to the complacent...
Furthermore, Vinikas' rhetoric is confusing; it is unclear how exactly likening Capeci's rhetorical strategy with the abhorrent conduct of Sheriff Hobbs constitutes a "practical" example.
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