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Lynching and Spectacle

- Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940

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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.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780807871973
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 368
  • Udgivet:
  • 28. februar 2011
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  • Størrelse:
  • 234x155x27 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 582 g.
  • 8-11 hverdage.
  • 28. november 2024

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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.

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