The C.O.W.S. w/ Amy Louise Wood: Lynching And Spectacle

Amy Louise Wood visits The Context of White Supremacy. An associate professor of history at Illinois State University, Wood is a U.S. cultural historian of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We'll review her 2009 publication, Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940. This book was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award in History. Wood investigates how Whites bearing witness to the mutilation of black bodies helped solidify the White race and legitimized, sanctified the barbarism White Supremacy required. She details the significance of the 1915 masterpiece, Birth Of A Nation, lynching postcards and photographs, and the ritual scavenging of body parts by Racist spectators. We'll compare this barbaric practice to the 21st century montage of footage of enforcement officers brutalizing and slaughtering black citizens. The racial theater has extended to the presidential election, as black attendees have been harassed and assaulted continually. #AnswersForMiriamCarey INVEST in The COWS - http://paypal.me/GusTRenegade CALL IN NUMBER: 641.715.3640 CODE 564943# The C.O.W.S. archives: http://tiny.cc/76f6p