Markovitz, Jonathan (2004). Legacies of Lynching: Racial Violence and Memory. University of Minnesota Press: Minneaopolis, MN.

Wood, Amy Louise (2009) Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940. UNC Press: Chapel Hill, NC.

The images in the “Erased Lynching” series began in 2002 and were derived from appropriated lynching postcards and archival source material from which Gonzales-Day removed the victim and the rope from each image. This conceptual gesture was intended to direct the viewers attention away from the lifeless body of the lynch victim and towards the mechanisms of lynching. The work asks viewers to consider the crowd, the spectacle, the role of the photographer, and even the impact of flash photography, and their various contributions to our understanding of racialized violence. The perpetrators, when present, remain fully visible, jeering, laughing, or pulling at the air in what can only be described as a deadly pantomime. As such, this series strives to make the invisible –visible, and to resist the re-victimization of the lynching victim (from Gonzalez-Day’s website).