Lynching and spectacle witnessing racial violence in America, 1890-1940
Record details
- ISBN: 9780807878118 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0807878111 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9781469603568 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 146960356X (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780807832547
- ISBN: 0807832545
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource (xiii, 349 p.) : ill. - Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.
Content descriptions
General Note: | CatMonthString:mar.13 Multi-User. CatBulkString:mar.12.13 |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-338) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | They want to see the thing done : public executions -- A hell of fire upon earth : religion -- The spectator has a picture in his mind to remember for a long time : photography -- They never witnessed such a melodrama : early moving pictures -- With the roar of thunder : The birth of a nation -- We wanted to be boosters and not knockers : photography and antilynching activism -- Bring home to America what mob violence really means : Hollywood's spectacular indictment. |
Awards Note: | Lillian Smith Book Award, 2010 |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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