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Racial terrorism : a rhetorical investigation of lynching /
"In December 2018, the United States Senate unanimously passed the nation's first antilynching act, the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act. For the first time in US history, legislators, representing the American people, classified lynching as a federal hate crime. While lynching historie...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2021.
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| Series: | Race, rhetoric, and media series.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Understanding the stakes involved in the EJI's lynching remembrances and historiographies
- "The blood of lynching victims is in the soil" : Reconstruction horrors and post-Reconstruction peonage
- The Progressives, Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, and the multiple racisms that marked Jim Crow segregation
- "By parties unknown" : the successes and failures of anti-lynching campaigns before World War II
- Post-World War II civil rights activism, photojournalism, and the domestication of civil rights lynching memories
- Bryan Stevenson, the formation of the Equal Justice Initiative, and the fight against the "stepchild of lynching"
- EJI critiques of Confederate statuary, Dixie monumentalization, and Charlottesville legacies
- Participatory rhetorics at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and Legacy Museum
- The EJI, the Legacy Museum, and "postgenocide" America
- Conclusion: The future of "race-conscious" memorialization in twenty-first-century America.