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 |
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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
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Lynching -- Texas -- History -- 20th century
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Lynching -- Social aspects -- Texas
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African Americans -- Violence against -- Texas -- History
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Leisure -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
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African Americans -- Violence against
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Leisure
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Lynching
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Race relations
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SUBJECT |
Texas -- Race relations -- History
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Subject |
Texas
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2021029514 |
ISBN |
1610757610 |
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9781610757614 |
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