Lynching and Spectacle Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 / Amy Louise Wood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wood, Amy Louise, 1967-

Series:

New directions in southern studies.

New directions in southern studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hate crimes--United States--History.

Hate crimes.

Violence--United States--History.

Violence.

Lynching--United States--History.

Lynching.

United States--Race relations--History.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 p.)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Lynch mobs in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America exacted horrifying public torture and mutilation on their victims. In Lynching and Spectacle, Amy Wood explains what it meant for white Americans to perform and witness these sadistic spectacles and how lynching played a role in establishing and affirming white supremacy. Lynching, Wood argues, overlapped with a variety of cultural practices and performances, both traditional and modern, including public executions, religious rituals, photography, and cinema, all which encouraged the horrific violence and gave it social

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-338) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908797-6-9

1-4696-0356-X

0-8078-7811-1

OCLC:

701719807