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Lynching and spectacle : witnessing racial violence in America, 1890-1940
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- Creator
- Amy Louise Wood
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 349 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781469603568, 0807878111, 9780807878118, 0807832545, 9780807832547, 146960356X, 0807871974, 9780807871973
- OCLC
- ocn261173677, ocn701719807
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-338) and index.
- 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