{"product_id":"lynching-and-spectacle-witnessing-racial-violence-in-america-18901940-new-directions-in-southern-studies-9780807871973","title":"Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America  1890-1940 (New Directions in Southern Studies)","description":"\u003cp\u003eLynch mobs in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America exacted horrifying public torture and mutilation on their victims. In Lynching and Spectacle  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. Lynching  Wood argues  overlapped with a variety of cultural practices and performances  both traditional and modern  including public executions  religious rituals  photography  and cinema  all which encouraged the horrific violence and gave it social acceptability. However  she also shows how the national dissemination of lynching images ultimately fueled the momentum of the antilynching movement and the decline of the practice. Using a wide range of sources  including photos  newspaper reports  pro- and antilynching pamphlets  early films  and local city and church records  Wood reconfigures our understanding of lynchings relationship to modern life.  Wood expounds on the critical role lynching spectacles played in establishing and affirming white supremacy at the turn of the century  particularly in towns and cities experiencing great social instability and change. She also shows how the national dissemination of lynching images fueled the momentum of the antilynching movement and ultimately led to the decline of lynching. By examining lynching spectacles alongside both traditional and modern practices and within both local and national contexts  Wood reconfigures our understanding of lynchings relationship to modern life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666290925621,"sku":"ByrdShop_0807871974","price":53.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780807871973.jpg?v=1782427247","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/lynching-and-spectacle-witnessing-racial-violence-in-america-18901940-new-directions-in-southern-studies-9780807871973","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}