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Lynching and spectacle witnessing racial violence in America, 1890-1940
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Title
Lynching and spectacle [electronic resource] : witnessing racial violence in America, 1890-1940 / Amy Louise Wood.
ISBN
146960356X
9781469603568
0807832545 (alk. paper)
9780807832547 (alk. paper)
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 349 p. :) ill. ;.
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Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC Archive American Studies Foundation.
Project MUSE - UPCC Archive Complete Supplement.
Project MUSE - UPCC Archive History Supplement.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 19, 2013
Series
New directions in southern studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-338) 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.
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