Lynching and spectacle : witnessing racial violence in America, 1890-1940 /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wood, Amy Louise, 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
Series:New directions in southern studies.
Subjects:
Lynching > United States > History.
Violence > United States > History.
Hate crimes > United States > History.
Lynchage > États-Unis > Histoire.
Violence > États-Unis > Histoire.
Crimes haineux > États-Unis > Histoire.
TRUE CRIME > General.
HISTORY > United States > General.
Hate crimes
Lynching
Race relations
Violence
Hate crime
Ethnische Beziehungen
Lynchjustiz
Gewalt
Rassenbeziehung > Gewalt > USA > Geschichte 19. Jh.
Rassenbeziehung > Gewalt > USA > Geschichte 20. Jh.
United States > Race relations > History.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire.
United States
USA
USA > Geschichte 19. Jh.
USA > Geschichte 20. Jh.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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