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Author Scott, Terry Anne, author.

Title Lynching and leisure : race and the transformation of mob violence in Texas / Terry Anne Scott
Published Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2022
©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 390 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Sport and Hate -- I. Mastery of the Mob -- Chapter 1. "This Is a Land of White Man's Rule": Black Freedom Expressions, Mastery of the Mob, and the Postbellum Racialization of Crime -- Chapter 2. "Black Brutes . . . Will Be Burned": Race, Gender, and the Uninterrupted Staging of Death by Burning -- Chapter 3. "Love the Negroes, All Right, but in Their Place": Race, Work, Migration, and Lynching -- II. For the People's Enjoyment
Chapter 4. "The Best Possible Views of the Torture": Experience, Enjoyment, and the Material Culture of Lynching -- Chapter 5. "To See for Themselves": Technology, Tourism, and the Experiential Lynching -- Chapter 6. "Lynchings, Not Bull Fights, Are Allowed in Texas": The African American Press, Lynching, and the Discourse of Leisure -- Epilogue. Lynching, Then and Now -- Appendix. List of Lynching Victims in Texas, 1866-1942 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
Summary "Comprehensive study that traces how lynchings in Texas evolved from largely clandestine acts into racialized recreation in which crowd involvement became integral to the atrocities committed"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Includes appendix: List of lynching victims in Texas, 1866-1942. Data table includes date, name, race, gender, city, county, alleged crime, mode of death, size of mob
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 05, 2022)
Subject Lynching -- Texas -- History -- 19th century
Lynching -- Texas -- History -- 20th century
Lynching -- Social aspects -- Texas
African Americans -- Violence against -- Texas -- History
Leisure -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
African Americans -- Violence against
Leisure
Lynching
Race relations
SUBJECT Texas -- Race relations -- History
Subject Texas
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021029514
ISBN 1610757610
9781610757614