Lynching and Leisure: Race and the Transformation of Mob Violence in Texas 9781682261897, 9781610757614, 1682261891

Winner, 2022 Ottis Lock Endowment “Best Book” Award from the East Texas Historical Association In Lynching and Leisure

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Table of contents :
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

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