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Lynching and spectacle : witnessing racial violence in America, 1890-1940
- Title
- Lynching and spectacle : witnessing racial violence in America, 1890-1940 / Amy Louise Wood.
- Author
- Wood, Amy Louise, 1967-
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 349 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- 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
- Series Statement
- New directions in southern studies
- Uniform Title
- New directions in southern studies.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 10-276
- ISBN
- 9780807832547 (alk. paper)
- 0807832545 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008045194
- OCLC
- 261173677
- Author
- Wood, Amy Louise, 1967-
- Title
- Lynching and spectacle : witnessing racial violence in America, 1890-1940 / Amy Louise Wood.
- Imprint
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.
- Series
- New directions in southern studiesNew directions in southern studies.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 10-276