Gruesome Looking Objects

Author : Elijah Gaddis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009084836
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gruesome Looking Objects written by Elijah Gaddis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1898 lynching of Tom Johnson and Joe Kizer is retold in this groundbreaking book. Unlike other histories of lynching that rely on conventional historical records, this study focuses on the objects associated with the lynching, including newspaper articles, fragments of the victims' clothing, photographs, and souvenirs such as sticks from the hanging tree. This material culture approach uncovers how people tried to integrate the meaning of the lynching into their everyday lives through objects. These seemingly ordinary items are repositories for the comprehension, interpretation, and commemoration of racial violence and white supremacy. Elijah Gaddis showcases an approach to objects as materials of history and memory, insisting that we live in a world suffused with the material traces of racial violence, past and present.

Author : Jacqueline Goldsby
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022679198X
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Spectacular Secret written by Jacqueline Goldsby and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This incisive study takes on one of the grimmest secrets in America's national life—the history of lynching and, more generally, the public punishment of African Americans. Jacqueline Goldsby shows that lynching cannot be explained away as a phenomenon peculiar to the South or as the perverse culmination of racist politics. Rather, lynching—a highly visible form of social violence that has historically been shrouded in secrecy—was in fact a fundamental part of the national consciousness whose cultural logic played a pivotal role in the making of American modernity. To pursue this argument, Goldsby traces lynching's history by taking up select mob murders and studying them together with key literary works. She focuses on three prominent authors—Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Stephen Crane, and James Weldon Johnson—and shows how their own encounters with lynching influenced their analyses of it. She also examines a recently assembled archive of evidence—lynching photographs—to show how photography structured the nation's perception of lynching violence before World War I. Finally, Goldsby considers the way lynching persisted into the twentieth century, discussing the lynching of Emmett Till in 1955 and the ballad-elegies of Gwendolyn Brooks to which his murder gave rise. An empathic and perceptive work, A Spectacular Secret will make an important contribution to the study of American history and literature.

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Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Author : Anna Bowman Dodd
Publisher : New York ; London : Harper
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Up the Seine to the Battlefields written by Anna Bowman Dodd and published by New York ; London : Harper. This book was released on 1920 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gary Crew
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 073441210X
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strange Objects written by Gary Crew and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 25th anniversary edition of this landmark novel, in which a chilling modern mystery is entwined with one of Australia's most brutal and intriguing historical atrocities. From one of Australia's most awarded writers, Gary Crew, with a foreword and cover illustration by Shaun Tan. On 4 June 1629, the Dutch vessel Batavia struck uncharted rocks off the West Australian coast. By the time help arrived, over 120 men, women and children had met their deaths - not in the sea, but murdered by two fellow survivors, Wouter Loos and Jan Pelgrom. Nearly 400 years later, Steven Messenger discovers gruesome relics from that wreck. Four months later he disappears without a trace. Where is Messenger? Is his disappearance linked to the relics? Someone knows ... somewhere ... 'this stunningly original work defies easy categorization as it spins dual story lines into one spellbinding yarn ... Crew tantalizes to the very end, leaving readers to speculate enthusiastically on the riddles he craftily leaves unsolved. His tale will electrify his audience' - Publishers Weekly 'Strange Objects will continue to tease and perplex readers of all ages long after it has been read' - Australian Book Review 'A supernatural mystery of a high order' - Kirkus Reviews 'The past is alive in us all, and will test our humanity to the full' - Marion Halligan

Author : Abraham Elizur
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Content Analysis of the Rorschach with Regard to Anxiety and Hostility written by Abraham Elizur and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Member of the National Health Society
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Highland Home written by Member of the National Health Society and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Margery Williams Bianco
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Other People's Houses written by Margery Williams Bianco and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1734 pages
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Download or read book Journal of Mental Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 1734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frank Jewett Mather
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Total Pages : 448 pages
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Download or read book Art in America written by Frank Jewett Mather and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: