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

Amy Louise Wood

Lynch mobs in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America often 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

Race & EthnicityRace & Ethnicity · medium confidenceRace & Ethnicity81 signalsLlm Classifier: Race & Ethnicity -> Race & EthnicityGoogle Books: History -> HistoryKeyword Classifier: Race & Ethnicity -> Race & EthnicityCrime, Policing & ViolenceCourts & Trials

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Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History2009FinalistSecondary source
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