Lynching and Spectacle
Amy Louise Wood
The University of North Carolina Press, 2011
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Lynch mobs in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century America exacted horrifying public torture and mutilation on their victims. Here, 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.
- ISBN-13
- 9780807871973
- ISBN-10
- 0807871974
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Year
- 2011
- Publication date
- 2011-02-01
- Pages
- 368
- Dimensions
- 155x234x27
- Weight
- 582