Amy Louise Wood
Biographic Data
| ID | 3624202 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy Louise Wood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy Louise |
| FAMILY NAME | Wood |
| SIGNATURE | WOOD A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Illinois State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mississippi Law: Policing and Reform in America’s Jim Crow Countryside. By Justin Randolph
The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South . By Michael Ayers Trotti
Journal Article The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South. By Michael Ayers Trotti Get access The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South. By Michael Ayers Trotti (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. xi plus 251pp. $32.95). Amy Louise Wood Amy Louise Wood Illinois State University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acade…
Douglas J. Flowe. Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York
Journal Article Douglas J. Flowe. Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York. Get access Douglas J. Flowe. Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. 332. Paper $32.50. Amy Louise Wood Amy Louise Wood Illinois State University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acad…
Without Sanctuary: The Symbolic Representation of Lynching in Photography
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Crime and Punishment in the Jim Crow South
Crime and Punishment in the Jim Crow South
This collection of nine original essays explores the development of a modern criminal justice system in the Jim Crow South, from the 1890s through the 1950s. It covers key transformations surrounding the practices of policing, incarceration, and capital punishment, as municipal police departments became professionalized and as authority over criminal punishment shifted from local jurisdictions to the state. The collection’s essays address the his…
Blood and Faith: Christianity in American White Nationalism
In Blood and Faith Damon T. Berry offers an “intellectual and religious history” of white nationalism, which he defines as an ethnonationalist movement dedicated to preservation of the white race beyond the confines of the nation-state (p. 11). Although the term white nationalism first came into being in the 1990s, leading other scholars to locate its roots as a movement in that decade, Berry argues that the ideas that sustain it were germinated …
The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America. By Anders Walker
Anders Walker has written a remarkable literary history of the Civil Rights Movement that details the responses of prominent Black and White writers to the prospect of a racially integrated society, as established in the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. Brown was premised on the notion that racial segregation had stunted African American progress and produced, in African American communities, a pathological culture …
Timothy B. Tyson. The Blood of Emmett Till
The brutal murder of young Emmett Till in 1955 stands as one of the most outrageous crimes of the twentieth century. The case has inspired a rich and substantial literature, including Mamie Till-Mobley’s 2003 memoir, Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America; John Edgar Wideman’s searing 2016 book, Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File; and Deverny Anderson’s comprehensive history of the case, published in 2015, E…
The Spectacle of Lynching: Rituals of White Supremacy in the Jim Crow South
From 1890s to the 1930s, white mobs tortured and killed thousands of African Americans across the South. These lynchings, even those committed by the smallest of mobs, were ritualistic and performative, enacting and reinforcing the core beliefs of white supremacy. The narratives and photographs produced after lynchings likewise created and circulated representations of white domination and black subordination. Lynching was thus more than a social…
Lynching
Lynching refers to an act of vigilantism, in which a group of persons punish an alleged crime outside the legal system, with community sanction. It has been practiced across the globe and has long historical roots, but it most commonly refers to acts of racial terrorism in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Lynch mobs targeted racial and ethnic minorities as a means to establish and maintain white authority in moments of…
Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940
Lynching, Crime, and the Law in Postbellum America
Bruce E. Baker, This Mob Will Surely Take My Life: Lynchings in the Carolinas, 1871–1947. New York, NY: Continuum Books, 2008. John D. Bessler, Legacy Violence: Lynch Mobs and Executions in Minneso
Peter Stanfield. Horse Opera: The Strange History of the 1930s Singing Cowboy. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2002.
Lynching Photography and the Visual Reproduction of White Supremacy
This essay argues that lynching photographs constructed and perpetuated white supremacist ideology by creating permanent images of a controlled white citizenry juxtaposed to images of helpless and powerless black men. These images gained further cultural force because they co‐existed within a host of conventions and assumptions about photography, including the expectation that photographs revealed objective truth. I argue that although lynching p…
The Spectacle of Lynching: Rituals of White Supremacy in the Jim Crow South
From 1890s to the 1930s, white mobs tortured and killed thousands of African Americans across the South. These lynchings, even those committed by the smallest of mobs, were ritualistic and performative, enacting and reinforcing the core beliefs of white supremacy. The narratives and photographs produced after lynchings likewise created and circulated representations of white domination and black subordination. Lynching was thus more than a social…
Peter Stanfield. Horse Opera: The Strange History of the 1930s Singing Cowboy. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2002.
Lynching Photography and the Visual Reproduction of White Supremacy
This essay argues that lynching photographs constructed and perpetuated white supremacist ideology by creating permanent images of a controlled white citizenry juxtaposed to images of helpless and powerless black men. These images gained further cultural force because they co‐existed within a host of conventions and assumptions about photography, including the expectation that photographs revealed objective truth. I argue that although lynching p…
Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940
Lynching, Crime, and the Law in Postbellum America
Bruce E. Baker, This Mob Will Surely Take My Life: Lynchings in the Carolinas, 1871–1947. New York, NY: Continuum Books, 2008. John D. Bessler, Legacy Violence: Lynch Mobs and Executions in Minneso
Lynching
Lynching refers to an act of vigilantism, in which a group of persons punish an alleged crime outside the legal system, with community sanction. It has been practiced across the globe and has long historical roots, but it most commonly refers to acts of racial terrorism in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Lynch mobs targeted racial and ethnic minorities as a means to establish and maintain white authority in moments of…
Timothy B. Tyson. The Blood of Emmett Till
The brutal murder of young Emmett Till in 1955 stands as one of the most outrageous crimes of the twentieth century. The case has inspired a rich and substantial literature, including Mamie Till-Mobley’s 2003 memoir, Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America; John Edgar Wideman’s searing 2016 book, Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File; and Deverny Anderson’s comprehensive history of the case, published in 2015, E…
The Spectacle of Lynching: Rituals of White Supremacy in the Jim Crow South
From 1890s to the 1930s, white mobs tortured and killed thousands of African Americans across the South. These lynchings, even those committed by the smallest of mobs, were ritualistic and performative, enacting and reinforcing the core beliefs of white supremacy. The narratives and photographs produced after lynchings likewise created and circulated representations of white domination and black subordination. Lynching was thus more than a social…
Crime and Punishment in the Jim Crow South
Crime and Punishment in the Jim Crow South
This collection of nine original essays explores the development of a modern criminal justice system in the Jim Crow South, from the 1890s through the 1950s. It covers key transformations surrounding the practices of policing, incarceration, and capital punishment, as municipal police departments became professionalized and as authority over criminal punishment shifted from local jurisdictions to the state. The collection’s essays address the his…
Blood and Faith: Christianity in American White Nationalism
In Blood and Faith Damon T. Berry offers an “intellectual and religious history” of white nationalism, which he defines as an ethnonationalist movement dedicated to preservation of the white race beyond the confines of the nation-state (p. 11). Although the term white nationalism first came into being in the 1990s, leading other scholars to locate its roots as a movement in that decade, Berry argues that the ideas that sustain it were germinated …
The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America. By Anders Walker
Anders Walker has written a remarkable literary history of the Civil Rights Movement that details the responses of prominent Black and White writers to the prospect of a racially integrated society, as established in the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. Brown was premised on the notion that racial segregation had stunted African American progress and produced, in African American communities, a pathological culture …
Without Sanctuary: The Symbolic Representation of Lynching in Photography
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Douglas J. Flowe. Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York
Journal Article Douglas J. Flowe. Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York. Get access Douglas J. Flowe. Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. 332. Paper $32.50. Amy Louise Wood Amy Louise Wood Illinois State University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acad…
The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South . By Michael Ayers Trotti
Journal Article The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South. By Michael Ayers Trotti Get access The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South. By Michael Ayers Trotti (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. xi plus 251pp. $32.95). Amy Louise Wood Amy Louise Wood Illinois State University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acade…
Mississippi Law: Policing and Reform in America’s Jim Crow Countryside. By Justin Randolph
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