My soul is a witness: the traumatic afterlife of lynching

An intimate look at the afterlife of lynching through the personal stories of Black victims and survivors who lived through and beyond its trauma Mari N. Crabtree traces the long afterlife of lynching in the South through the traumatic memories it left in its wake. She unearths how African American...

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Main Author: Crabtree, Mari N. (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven London Yale University Press [2022]
In:Year: 2022
Online Access: Cover (Verlag)
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Keywords:
20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.)
Lynching > Southern States > History
Lynching > Psychological aspects
African Americans > Violence against > Southern States > History
Collective Memory
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
Amerikanische Geschichte
Black & Asian studies
Ethnische Gruppen und multikulturelle Studien
HIS056000
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
History of the Americas
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Social discrimination & inequality
Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
Soziale Diskriminierung und Gleichbehandlung
Usa
Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA
Parallel Edition:Erscheint auch als: 9780300268515
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Summary:An intimate look at the afterlife of lynching through the personal stories of Black victims and survivors who lived through and beyond its trauma Mari N. Crabtree traces the long afterlife of lynching in the South through the traumatic memories it left in its wake. She unearths how African American victims and survivors found ways to live through and beyond the horrors of lynching, offering a theory of African American collective trauma and memory rooted in the ironic spirit of the blues sensibility-a spirit of misdirection and cunning that blends joy and pain. Black southerners often shielded their loved ones from the most painful memories of local lynchings with strategic silences but also told lynching stories about vengeful ghosts or a wrathful God or the deathbed confessions of a lyncher tormented by his past. They protested lynching and its legacies through art and activism, and they mourned those lost to a mob's fury. They infused a blues element into their lynching narratives to confront traumatic memories and keep the blues at bay, even if just for a spell. Telling their stories troubles the simplistic binary of resistance or submission that has tended to dominate narratives of Black life and reminds us that amid the utter devastation of lynching were glimmers of hope and an affirmation of life
Item Description:Zielgruppe: 5PB-US-C, Bezug zu Afro-Amerikanern
Physical Description:xv, 294 Seiten, Illustrationen
ISBN:9780300250411