Gender and Lynching The Politics of Memory

by Simien, Evelyn M.

• ISBN13: 9780230112704
• ISBN10: 0230112706
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-10-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Where much of the scholarship on lynching and its victims has focused on African American men, Gender and Lynchingis the first to examine African American women in this history. The authors probe the reasons and circumstances surrounding the death and torture of African American female victims, employing such methodological approaches as comparative historical work, content and media analysis, and literary criticism.

Author Biography

Evelyn M. Simien is acting director of the Humanities Institute and an associate Professor of political science, jointly appointed with the Institute for African American Studies and affiliated with the Women's Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at the university of Connecticut she is an associate editor for polity (the Journal of the Northeastern Political science Association.

Table of Contents

Introduction--Evelyn M. Simien * Mary Turner, Hidden Memory, and Narrative Possibility--Julie Buckner Armstrong * Sisters in Motherhood (?): The Politics of Race and Gender in Lynching Drama--Koritha Mitchell * The Female Lynch Victim in Post-Reconstruction African American Literature--Barbara McCaskill “A Woman was Lynched the Other Day”: Memory, Gender, and the Limits of Traumatic Representation--Jennifer D. Williams * The Politics of Sexuality in Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit”--Fumiko Sakashita * Gender, Race, and Public Space: Photography and Memory in the Massacre of East Saint Louis and the Crisis Magazine--Anne Rice