Beauty along the color line: Lynching, aesthetics, and the Crisis

PMLA

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Castronovo, Russ ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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EID: 60950656372     PISSN: 00308129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1632/pmla.2006.121.5.1443     Document Type: Review

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