| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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Imagery of Lynching: Black Men, White Women, and the Mob. By Dora Apel. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2004. xii, 259 pp. Cloth, $70.00, ISBN 0-8135-3458-5. Paper, $34.95, ISBN 0-8135-3459-3.)

In Imagery of Lynching, Dora Apel builds on the literature of lynching, art, photography, race, and gender, as well as studies on whiteness and specific historical periods, to provide a sweeping analysis of the photography and artwork of spectacle lynching from the 1880s to the present. She dissects their purpose and meaning over time. Just as the horrific killings of individual black men were intended to terrorize black society, photographs taken by mob participants and widely reproduced as postcards for white eyes only sought to reaffirm white supremacy, control white women, and educate white youngsters in racism; in contrast, linocuts, drawings, and paintings by black and white artists exhibited after 1930 protested the killings and challenged existing race and gender relations. Through penetrating interpretations of an array of carefully selected photographs, artworks, and exhibitions, Apel convincingly demonstrates the power of lynching images and their evolution from tools of white oppression to weapons of racial liberation.

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