Lynching and spectacle : witnessing racial violence in America, 1890-1940 / Amy Louise Wood
- Author
- Wood, Amy Louise, 1967-
- Published
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
[Getzville, New York] : William S. Hein & Company, [2019] - Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 349 pages) : illustrations
Access Online
- HeinOnline UNC Press Law Publications: ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu
- Series
- 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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- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-338) and index.
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