Gruesome Looking Objects : A New History of Lynching and Everyday Things

Name: Gruesome Looking Objects
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781316514023
Price: 4950 KES
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ISBN: 9781316514023

by Elijah Gaddis

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Format Hardback

Book Series Cambridge Studies on the American South

ISBN-10 1316514021

ISBN-13 9781316514023

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Nov 17th, 2022

Print length 258 Pages

Weight 534 grams

Dimensions 16.00 x 23.60 x 2.50 cms

Product Classification: History of the Americas History 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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