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.
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2009]
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Series: | New directions in southern studies.
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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.