Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940

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Amy Wood explains what it meant for white Americans to perform and witness these sadistic spectacles and what they derived from them.

• ISBN bar code 9780807878118 ξ1 registered September 21 2015
  
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Lynch mobs in late 19th- and early 20th-century America often exacted horrifying public torture and mutilation on their victims. Amy Wood explains what it meant for white Americans to perform and witness these sadistic spectacles and what they derived from them. Lynching, Wood argues, overlapped with a wide range of cultural practices and performances, both traditional and modern, including public executions, religious rituals, photography, and cinema. The connections between lynching and these practices encouraged the horrific violence committed and gave it social acceptability.

^ Amy Louise Wood (2015). Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 ISBN 9780807878118 (revised Oct 2015)