Lynching and spectacle : witnessing racial violence in America, 1890-1940 / Amy Louise Wood.
Wood, Amy Louise, 1967-
2009
HV6457 .W66 2009 (Mapit)
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Title Lynching and spectacle : witnessing racial violence in America, 1890-1940 / Amy Louise Wood.
Author Wood, Amy Louise, 1967-
ISBN 9780807832547 (alk. paper)
0807832545 (alk. paper)
Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.
Language English
Description xiii, 349 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number HV6457 .W66 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 364.1/34
Summary 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
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series New directions in southern studies.
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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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.

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