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

Amy Louise Wood (Author)
Annotation This study presents public reinforcement of white supremacy. Lynch mobs in late 19th and 20th century America often exacted horrifying public torture and mutilation on their victims. In this book, Amy Wood explains what it meant for white Americans to perform and witness these sadistic spectacles and what they derived from them
eBook, English, Feb. 2011
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, Feb. 2011