Gruesome Looking Objects : A New History of Lynching and Everyday Things
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Studies on the American South
ISBN-10
1009077074
ISBN-13
9781009077071
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 9th, 2026
Print length
258 Pages
Weight
424 grams
Product Classification:
History of the AmericasHistory of the Americas
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This innovative study uses objects—made, collected, and imagined—to tell the story of the 1898 lynching of Tom Johnson and Joe Kizer in North Carolina. Utilizing material culture, memory, and landscapes, it brings important new insights to the understanding of racial violence in the American South and beyond.
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.
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