Book review of: Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890–1930. By Koritha Mitchell. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011. Gender and Lynching: The Politics of Memory. Edited by Evelyn M. Simien. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Between 1890 and 1930, while most white Americans were invested in what they wanted lynching to clearly and singularly denote—what Robyn Wiegman so aptly describes as “the specular assurance that the racial threat...has been rendered incapable of return”—the black community was more interested in ex...
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University of Chicago Press
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/89649 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2706-9481 |