Lynching performances, theatres of violence

Doing whiteness: On the performative dimensions of race in the classroom

“…Work by scholars like Daniels (1997) and Fuoss (1999) are already beginning to uncover how whiteness gets constituted, but much more needs to be done to really account for this process. I would suggest that this kind of micro-analytic work will greatly aid the work being done in both whiteness and communication studies, for it advances the level of complexity by focusing on the machinery as seen through the act.…”

Lynching as Leisure

“…The images serve as evidence of the racial supremacy of some and the inferiority of others. White (1992) Fuoss (1999) referenced the New York Tribune that acknowledged that "the theatrical business is looking up in Kentucky" in regard to lynching spectating (p. 2). One sees where the person was killed, and one also sees who participated, how, and where.…”

“…[they] had burning the [five] niggers” (p. 3). Fuoss (1999) referenced the New York Tribune that acknowledged that “the theatrical business is looking up in Kentucky” in regard to lynching spectating (p. 2).…”

“…Yet one still gains a sense of perspective from the view on top of a building how expansive the support behind the act of justice was for Henry Smith’s death. Fuoss (1999) described “a great float drawn by six horses . .…”

Missing Dolly, Mourning Slavery: The Slave Notice as Keepsake

“…Kirk Fuoss estimates that between 1882 and 1939, a total of 5,125 lynchings occurred in the United States. 46 Jacquelyn Dowd Hall explains how lynching continued as a remnant of vigilantism that long outlasted the system's formal replacement by the professional police: "Rather than passing with the frontier . .…”