Background
Waldrep, Christopher Reef was born on November 19, 1951 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States. Son of Reef Vuin and Ella Christine (Yates) Waldrep.
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In the late nineteenth century, industrialization was making its way into rural America. In an agricultural region of Kentucky and Tennessee called the Black Patch for the dark tobacco grown there, big business arrived with a vengeance, eliminating competition, manipulating prices, and undermining local control. The farmers fought back. Night Riders tells the story of the struggle that followed, and reveals the ambiguities and complexities of a drama that convulsed this community for over two decades. Christopher Waldrep shows that, contrary to many accounts, these wealthy tobacco planters did not resist these new forces simply because of a nostalgia for a bygone time. Instead, many sought to become modern capitalists themselves--but on their own terms. The South's rural elite found their ability to hire and control black labor--the established racial practice of the community--threatened by the low prices offered by big companies for their raw materials. In response, farmers organized and demanded better prices for their tobacco. The tobacco companies then attempted to divide the farmers by offering higher prices to those willing to break with the others. When some cultivators succumbed, their betrayal awakened a deeply rooted vigilante tradition that called for the protection of community at all costs. Waldrep analyzes the spasm of violence that ensued in which horsemen, riding at night, destroyed tobacco barns and the warehouses where the companies stored their tobacco. But despite this fierce upheaval, the Black Patch community endured. The most thorough treatment ever given to the Black Patch war, Night Riders illuminates a moment in history in which the traditional and the modern, the rural and the industrial, fought for the future--and past--of a community.
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(Tracing the use and meaning of the word "lynching" from t...)
Tracing the use and meaning of the word "lynching" from the colonial period to the present, historian Christopher Waldrep reveals that while the notion of lynching as a form of extralegal punishment sanctioned by the community did not alter significantly
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The word “lynching” has immediate and graphic connotations for virtually all people who hear and use the word. When Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas claimed he was lynched by a Senate investigating committee, he intentionally and deliberately drew on two key components of the term -- race and punishment – that stemmed from the long and ugly history of lynching in America. Yet if we follow the history of the term itself – which is over two centuries old – we learn that lynching has had several different meanings over time, with murder endorsed by the community as one of its most enduring definitions. Tracing the use and meaning of the word “lynching” from the colonial period to the present, historian Christopher Waldrep reveals that while the notion of lynching as a form of extralegal punishment sanctioned by the community did not alter significantly over time, the meaning of the word itself changed drastically, paralleling changes in how Americans grappled with law enforcement, community, and most importantly, race relations.
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Waldrep, Christopher Reef was born on November 19, 1951 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States. Son of Reef Vuin and Ella Christine (Yates) Waldrep.
Bachelor of Science in Education, Eastern Illinois University, 1973. Master of Arts, Purdue University, 1974. Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, 1990.
Teacher Washington (Ohio) City Schools, 1974-1990. Assistant professor Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, 1990-1994, associate professor, 1994-1999, professor, 1999—2000. Jamie and Phyllis Pasker professor history San Francisco State University, since 2000.
(Tracing the use and meaning of the word "lynching" from t...)
( The word “lynching” has immediate and graphic connotati...)
( In the late nineteenth century, industrialization was m...)
Member American History Association, American Society Legal History, Organization American Hists., Southern History Association.
Married Pamela Jean Heiney, August 15, 1976. Children: Janelle Christine, Andrea Jean.