Lynching and Leisure : Race and the Transformation of Mob Violence in Texas /
"Comprehensive study that traces how lynchings in Texas evolved from largely clandestine acts into racialized recreation in which crowd involvement became integral to the atrocities committed"--
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Fayetteville :
University of Arkansas Press,
2022.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Sport and Hate
- I. Mastery of the Mob
- Chapter 1. "This Is a Land of White Man's Rule": Black Freedom Expressions, Mastery of the Mob, and the Postbellum Racialization of Crime
- Chapter 2. "Black Brutes . . . Will Be Burned": Race, Gender, and the Uninterrupted Staging of Death by Burning
- Chapter 3. "Love the Negroes, All Right, but in Their Place": Race, Work, Migration, and Lynching
- II. For the People's Enjoyment
- Chapter 4. "The Best Possible Views of the Torture": Experience, Enjoyment, and the Material Culture of Lynching
- Chapter 5. "To See for Themselves": Technology, Tourism, and the Experiential Lynching
- Chapter 6. "Lynchings, Not Bull Fights, Are Allowed in Texas": The African American Press, Lynching, and the Discourse of Leisure
- Epilogue. Lynching, Then and Now
- Appendix. List of Lynching Victims in Texas, 1866-1942
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author