Description:x, 259 p., [8] p. of col. plates : 26 cm;The author traces the origins and history of images of lynching to explore its role in racism in the United States;Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-249) and index;On looking -- Scottsboro, the Communist party, and the NAACP: conflicts and desires -- The antilynching exhibitions of 1935: strategies and constraints -- Race, sex, and politics in prewar America: picturing Black oppression -- Mass media, World War II, and the Cold War: the lynching of George Dorsey and Emmitt Till -- The evolution of lynching narratives in contemporary art