Title Lynching and spectacle : witnessing racial violence in America, 1890-1940 / Amy Louise Wood.

Publication Info.	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
	©2009

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Description	1 online resource (xiii, 349 pages) : illustrations.
Series	New directions in southern studies
	New directions in southern studies.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
Summary	By examining lynching spectacles alongside both traditional and modern practices and within both local and national contexts, Wood reconfigures our understanding of lynching's relationship to modern life. --from publisher description.
Awards	Lillian Smith Book Award, 2010
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Lynching -- United States -- History.
	Violence -- United States -- History.
	Hate crimes -- United States -- History.
	United States -- Race relations -- History.
	Social sciences.
	TRUE CRIME -- General.
	HISTORY -- United States -- General.
	Hate crimes. (OCoLC)fst00951873
	Lynching. (OCoLC)fst01004334
	Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
	Violence. (OCoLC)fst01167224
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Hate crime. (DE-588)4563128-1
	Ethnische Beziehung. (DE-588)4176973-9
	Lynchjustiz. (DE-588)4168383-3
	Gewalt. (DE-588)4020832-1
	Rassenbeziehung -- Gewalt -- USA -- Geschichte 19. Jh.
	Rassenbeziehung -- Gewalt -- USA -- Geschichte 20. Jh.
	United States -- Geschichte 19. Jh.
	United States -- Geschichte 20. Jh.
	Hate crime.
	Rassenbeziehung.
	Lynchjustiz.
	Gewalt.
	United States.
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Wood, Amy Louise, 1967- Lynching and spectacle. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009 9780807832547 (DLC) 2008045194 (OCoLC)261173677
ISBN	9780807878118 (electronic bk.)
	0807878111 (electronic bk.)
	9781469603568 (electronic bk.)
	146960356X (electronic bk.)

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