Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. A Sign of the Times: Lynching and Its Cultural Logic 12
6. 2. Writing “Dynamitically”: Ida B. Wells 43
7. 3. “The Drift of the Public Mind”: Stephen Crane 105
8. 4. Lynching’s Mass Appeal and the “Terrible Real”: James Weldon Johnson 164
9. 5. Through a Different Lens: Lynching Photography at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century 214
10. 6. In the Mind’s Eye 282
11. Acknowledgments 309
12. Notes 315
13. Index 407