This chapter analyzes the presences of lynching historiographies that Stevenson and the EJI challenge at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum. From a critical genealogical standpoint, the authors draw out the multi-directionality and competitive nature of Dixie monumentalization and the “narrative wars” in the South. This part of the book also specifically explains how the 2017 Unite the Right rally had everything to do with the living legacy, and iconography, of racial terrorism even though many had thought we were in a “post-racial” moment.
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This chapter explains the motivations of Bryan Stevenson and the rise of the EJI. We study how Stevenson’s legal work, his involvement with America’s justice system, and his best-selling book, Just Mercy, contributed to the formation of the EJI. Through a close reading of Just Mercy, we argue that Stevenson and his EJI garnered international attention as a response to the believed complacency of civil rights activism and its forgetting of the legacy of racial terrorism.
{"title":"Bryan Stevenson, the Formation of the Equal Justice Initiative, and the Fight against the “Stepchild of Lynching”","authors":"M. Hasian, Nicholas S. Paliewicz","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1fkgc9s.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1fkgc9s.9","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explains the motivations of Bryan Stevenson and the rise of the EJI. We study how Stevenson’s legal work, his involvement with America’s justice system, and his best-selling book, Just Mercy, contributed to the formation of the EJI. Through a close reading of Just Mercy, we argue that Stevenson and his EJI garnered international attention as a response to the believed complacency of civil rights activism and its forgetting of the legacy of racial terrorism.","PeriodicalId":259968,"journal":{"name":"Racial Terrorism","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128726909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This chapter provides readers with an analysis of the photojournalism and other visualities that were used by private and public organizations interested in civil rights activism who were working on anti-lynching consciousness-raising between World War II and 2000. The authors contend that this was the period that witnessed commentary about the “end” of U.S. lynchings, but this amnesia would be critiqued by those who learned about the evocative power of an anti-lynching travelling exhibit, entitled Without Sanctuary.
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This chapter studies the counterpart to the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, the Legacy Museum. Attending to the affective and cerebral displays of racial pasts and presents, the authors show how the museum presents a timeline of racial terrorism from slavery to the present era of mass incarceration of persons of color. The hauntologies of the Legacy Museum not only radically critique the colorblind discourses of civil rights remembrances, but they also raise questions about the possibilities of the need to remember an African American Holocaust.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-28DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496831743.003.0010
M. Hasian, Nicholas S. Paliewicz
In this concluding chapter, the authors take up the question of how American communities are going to react to the EJI’s “race conscious” efforts. It is one thing to visit the memorial, dig up soil samples from lynching sites and send them to the Lynching Memorial but quite another to be arguing for massive overhauls in the ways we think about incarceration of African Americans or the need for reparations. Here, the authors argue that their critical genealogical analyses have shown why U.S. communities may be willing to acknowledge the problematics of antebellum, Reconstruction, post-Reconstruction, or even 1950s segregationist practices, but they are possibly unwilling to see the lingering influence, in the twenty-first century, of entrenched racial categorizations or carceral practices that can be traced back to post-Civil War years.
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In this chapter, the authors focus on the genealogical dimensions of the anti-lynching efforts of those nineteenth-century progressive advocates who joined Ida B. Wells-Barnett during her anti-lynching crusades. Extending the work of post-structural theorists, who focus on larger discursive formations, the authors comment on the enduring texts and visualities that swirled around Wells-Barnett and those who critiqued her work as she put together her famed “Red Record” of lynchings.
{"title":"The Progressives, Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, and the Multiple Racisms That Marked Jim Crow Segregation","authors":"M. Hasian, Nicholas S. Paliewicz","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1fkgc9s.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1fkgc9s.6","url":null,"abstract":"In this chapter, the authors focus on the genealogical dimensions of the anti-lynching efforts of those nineteenth-century progressive advocates who joined Ida B. Wells-Barnett during her anti-lynching crusades. Extending the work of post-structural theorists, who focus on larger discursive formations, the authors comment on the enduring texts and visualities that swirled around Wells-Barnett and those who critiqued her work as she put together her famed “Red Record” of lynchings.","PeriodicalId":259968,"journal":{"name":"Racial Terrorism","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126615588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This chapter explains the myriad reasons why so many members of the NAACP and other anti-lynching communities failed to muster enough support to pass U.S. federal anti-lynching legislation before World War II. During this period, all sorts of “states’ rights” arguments were used to critique the efforts of organizations like the NAACP and the International Labor Defense (ILD) during the Jim Crow years.
{"title":"“By Parties Unknown”","authors":"M. Hasian, Nicholas S. Paliewicz","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1fkgc9s.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1fkgc9s.7","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explains the myriad reasons why so many members of the NAACP\u0000and other anti-lynching communities failed to muster enough support to pass U.S. federal anti-lynching legislation before World War II. During this period, all sorts of “states’ rights” arguments were used to critique the efforts of organizations like the NAACP and the International Labor Defense (ILD) during the Jim Crow years.","PeriodicalId":259968,"journal":{"name":"Racial Terrorism","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125035531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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