“Somebody do Something!”: Lynching Photographs, Historical Memory, and the Possibility of Sympathetic Spectatorship
This paper traces the history of one specific photograph and its exhibition over time from the 1930s through the 1980s: that of the lynching of ‘Bootjack’ McDaniels, tortured to death by a white mob in Duck Hill, Mississippi, in 1937. I use that history to reflect more broadly on how lynching photog...
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European Association for American Studies
2019-12-01
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| Serie: | European Journal of American Studies |
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| Accesso online: | https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/15512 |
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