TY - BOOK AU - Wood,Amy Louise TI - Lynching and spectacle : witnessing racial violence in America, 1890-1940 T2 - New directions in southern studies SN - 9780807871973 AV - HV6457 .W66 2009 U1 - 364.134 23 PY - 2009/// CY - Chapel Hill PB - University of North Carolina Press KW - Lynching KW - United States KW - History KW - Violence KW - Hate crimes KW - Race relations N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-338) and index; They want to see the thing done : public executions -- A hell of fire upon earth : religion -- The spectator has a picture in his mind to remember for a long time : photography -- They never witnessed such a melodrama : early moving pictures -- With the roar of thunder : The birth of a nation -- We wanted to be boosters and not knockers : photography and antilynching activism -- Bring home to America what mob violence really means : Hollywood's spectacular indictment ER -