Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-406) and index.
Contents
A sign of the times : lynching and its cultural logic -- Writing "dynamitically" : Ida B. Wells -- "The drift of the public mind" : Stephen Crane -- Lynching's mass appeal and the "terrible real" : James Weldon Johnson -- Through a different lens : lynching photography at the turn of the nineteenth century -- In the mind's eye.
