Imagery of lynching: black men, white women, and the mob
Auteur :
Apel, Dora
Éditeur :
Rutgers University Press
ISBN :
9780813534596
Date de publication :
3 sept. 2004
Dimensions :
25,4 x 17,8 x 2,0 cm
Poids :
626 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Analysing over one hundred representations of lynching, Dora Apel shows how the visual documentation of such crimes can be a central vehicle for the construction and reinforcement of racial hierarchies. Lynching was often orchestrated explicitly for the camera, and photographs were used to construct ideologies of "whiteness" and "blackness.