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Article: Imagery of Lynching: Black Men, White Women, and the Mob.(Book Review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- February 1, 2006
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Imagery of Lynching: Black Men, White Women, and the Mob. By Dora Apel. (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, c. 2004. Pp. xii, 259. Paper, $34.95, ISBN 0-8135-3459-3; cloth, $70.00, ISBN 0-8135-3458-5.)
In Imagery of Lynching: Black Men, White Women, and the Mob Dora Apel presents a history of lynching through its visual representations. Apel uses artwork and photographs to illuminate an environment in which lynching was often a public spectacle, a community festival where the perpetrators were always "unknown." As a result, her work is nearly as much social history as art history and makes an important contribution to the effort to comprehend the ...