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Lynching and Spectacle : Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 /

By examining lynching spectacles alongside both traditional and modern practices and within both local and national contexts, Wood reconfigures our understanding of lynching's relationship to modern life. --from publisher description.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Wood, Amy Louise, 1967- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • They want to see the thing done : public executions
  • A hell of fire upon earth : religion
  • The spectator has a picture in his mind to remember for a long time : photography
  • They never witnessed such a melodrama : early moving pictures
  • With the roar of thunder : The birth of a nation
  • We wanted to be boosters and not knockers : photography and antilynching activism
  • Bring home to America what mob violence really means : Hollywood's spectacular indictment.