Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 by Amy Louise Wood

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

Amy Louise Wood

349 pages digital 2009

4 editions

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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 sadis...

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