Lynching and spectacle
Subtitle: witnessing racial violence in America, 1890-1940
By: Amy Louise Wood.
Series: New directions in southern studies
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780807832547
Subjects: Lynching -- United States -- History; Violence -- United States -- History; Hate crimes -- United States -- History; United States -- Race relations -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: They want to see the thing done : public executions; title: A hell of fire upon earth : religion; title: The spectator has a picture in his mind to remember for a long time : photography; title: They never witnessed such a melodrama : early moving pictures; title: With the roar of thunder : the birth of a nation; title: We wanted to be boosters and not knockers : photography and antilynching activism; title: Bring home to America what mob violence really means : Hollywood's spectacular indictment.