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Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 - New Directions in Southern Studies Amy Louise Wood New edition
Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 - New Directions in Southern Studies
Amy Louise Wood
Lynch mobs in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century America exacted horrifying public torture and mutilation on their victims. Here, 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.
368 pages, Illustrations
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | February 1, 2011 |
| ISBN13 | 9780807871973 |
| Publishers | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Pages | 368 |
| Dimensions | 234 × 155 × 27 mm · 582 g |
| Language | English |
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