Lynching and leisure : race and the transformation of mob violence in Texas /

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Author / Creator:	Scott, Terry Anne, author.
Imprint:	Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2022. ©2022
Description:	1 online resource ( xi, 390 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Lynching -- Texas -- History -- 19th century. Lynching -- Texas -- History -- 20th century. Lynching -- Social aspects -- Texas. African Americans -- Violence against -- Texas -- History. Leisure -- History. African Americans -- Violence against. Leisure. Lynching. Race relations. Texas -- Race relations -- History. Texas.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12778122

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ISBN:	1610757610 9781610757614 9781682261897
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. Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 05, 2022).
Other form:	Print version: Scott, Terry Anne. Lynching and leisure Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2022 9781682261897

Table of 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
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

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