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

by Amy Louise Wood

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807871974
• ISBN13: 9780807871973
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"