Lynching and Leisure: Race and the Transformation of Mob Violence in Texas
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Lynching and Leisure: Race and the Transformation of Mob Violence in Texas

Lynching and Leisure: Race and the Transformation of Mob Violence in Texas

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Terry Anne Scott (Author)  

Hardback

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In Lynching and Leisure: Race and the Transformation of Mob Violence in Texas, Terry Anne Scott examines how white Texans transformed lynching from a largely clandestine strategy of extralegal punishment into a form of racialized recreation in which crowd involvement was integral to the mode and methods of the violence. Scott powerfully documents how lynchings came to function not only as tools for debasing the status of Black people but also as highly anticipated occasions for entertainment, making memories with friends and neighbors, and reifying whiteness. In focusing on the sense of pleasure and normality that prevailed among the white spectatorship, this comprehensive study of Texas lynchings sheds new light on the practice understood as one of the chief strategies of racial domination in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century South.
Terry Anne Scott is associate professor of American history and Chair of the History Department at Hood College. She is the editor of Seattle Sports: Play, Identity, and Pursuit in the Emerald City.
  • Contributor: Terry Anne Scott
  • Imprint: University of Arkansas Press
  • ISBN13: 9781682261897
  • Number of Pages: 268
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229mm
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
  • Release Date: 2022-05-30
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Terry Anne Scott is associate professor of American history and Chair of the History Department at Hood College. She is the editor of Seattle Sports: Play, Identity, and Pursuit in the Emerald City.

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