Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930

by Koritha Mitchell

Book Overview

Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930 demonstrates that popular lynching plays were mechanisms through which African American communities survived actual and photographic mob violence. Often available in periodicals, lynching plays were read aloud or acted out by black church members, schoolchildren, and families. Koritha Mitchell shows that African Americans performed and read the scripts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252078802
• ISBN13: 9780252078804
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.8"