
Gruesome Looking Objects
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'Elijah Gaddis has written an incisive, probing history of the materiality of racial violence and its historical residue. In creatively reconstructing a double lynching in North Carolina, he has persuasively demonstrated how objects and things, if interrogated and contextualized thoroughly enough, can allow us to read more deeply into the freighted meanings of such tragedies.' Claude A. Clegg III, author of Troubled Ground: A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South 'There are hundreds of lynching stories yet to be told, and all deserve to be told with care and creativity. In a crowded scholarly field, Elijah Gaddis has offered a singular contribution through his examination of artifacts associated with a double lynching that occurred at the height of North Carolina's white supremacy campaign. Gaddis demonstrates, like none before him, how lynchers leave their mark on history, memory, and the everyday things left behind. A remarkable achievement.' Jason Morgan Ward, author of Hanging Bridge: Racial Violence and America's Civil Rights Century 'Gruesome Looking Objects offers a rich analysis of the material culture surrounding racist violence. Through a case study of one lynching, Gaddis deftly demonstrates how the ordinary objects used in and generated from a lynching served to normalize atrocity and embed it in everyday life. This is an innovative and smart book.' Amy Louise Wood, author of Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 'The book is versatile and strongly written, and individual chapters can stand alone as scholarly works as needed. I highly recommend this book to anymore interested in the normalization of white supremacy thorugh objects in the Jim Crow South as well as to historians interested in material culture studies.' V. Camille Westmont, Journal of Southern History 'Gaddis has provided an in-depth exploration of aspects of white American culture surrounding lynching that perpetuated the growth of white supremacist ideology. The book is well worth a read.' Karen McIlvoy, H-Net ReviewsMore details
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