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On Being with Krista Tippett
This book, containing photographs of lynchings and postcards depicting white people next to murdered Black people, was used to demythologize the history of lynching in the US and highlight how it was not an aberration but rather a widespread event.
It's a book and a collection that has traveled and it's photographs of lynchings that include postcards. And those postcards are photographs of white people who have paid a photographer to come and ta...
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This book, containing photographs of lynchings and postcards depicting white people next to murdered Black people, was used to demythologize the history of lynching in the US and highlight how it was not an aberration but rather a widespread event.
It's a book and a collection that has traveled and it's photographs of lynchings that include postcards. And those postcards are photographs of white people who have paid a photographer to come and take a picture of them standing, smiling or next to the body of a black human being who has been murdered.