Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930
(Part of the The New Black Studies Series Series)
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Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930 demonstrates that popular lynching plays were mechanisms through which African American communities survived actual and photographic mob violence. Often available in periodicals, lynching plays were read aloud or acted out by black church members, schoolchildren, and families. Koritha Mitchell shows that African Americans performed and read the scripts...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0252078802
ISBN13:9780252078804
Release Date:July 2012
Publisher:University of Illinois Press
Length:272 Pages
Weight:0.96 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.9" x 8.8"
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