About this title: Why do we look at lynching photographs? What is the basis for our curiosity, rage, indignation, or revulsion? Beginning in the late nineteenth century, nearly five thousand blacks were put to death at the hands of lynch mobs throughout America. In many communities, it was a public event, to be witnessed, recorded, and made available by means of photographs. In this book, the art historian Dora Apel and the American Studies scholar Shawn Michelle Smith examine lynching photographs as a way of analyzing photography's historical role in promoting and resisting racial violence. They further ...
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Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 1-5-08
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Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Date Published: 2008-01-05
ISBN-13:9780520253322ISBN:0520253329
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Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 2008
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Edition: 1st edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780520253322ISBN:0520253329
Description: New. "A lucid, smart, engaging, and accessible introduction to the impact of lynching photography on the history of race and violence in America. "--Grace Elizabeth Hale, author of "Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in America, 1890-1940" "With... read more
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