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“Witnessing” Lynching in Scholarship and in the Classroom

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  • Amy Louise Wood’s Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890–1940 was published in 2009, just as I finished my PhD on the cultural campaigns of the NAACP

  • Lynching and Spectacle builds on the scholarship of historians such as Fitzhugh Brundage and focuses on lynching as a form of white supremacist mob violence rather than considering the broader history of lynching.[2]

  • “viewers were ... impelled to read the images oppositionally, that is, against their intended point of view.”[6]. The artists and writers that I discuss in my work created their representations from that oppositional view, impelling their viewers or readers to see them as indictments of white brutality and African American suffering

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Amy Louise Wood’s Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890–1940 was published in 2009, just as I finished my PhD on the cultural campaigns of the NAACP. Alternative narratives were constructed by Black artists, writers, and activists in the early twentieth century, which challenged white representations of lynching.

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