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Hill, Karlos. "“Academic Lynchings: Discourse, Murder, and the Evasion of Political Economy and Resistance, 1979-2000”" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p143321_index.html>

Hill, K. "“Academic Lynchings: Discourse, Murder, and the Evasion of Political Economy and Resistance, 1979-2000”" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p143321_index.html

Publication Type: Invited Paper Abstract: Historically, the dominant trend in scholarship on African American lynching has been to examine the phenomena of lynching in relation to rape. While lynching scholars have been aware that lynch parties cited the murder of a white woman or man more frequently than rape as a justification for a lynching, scholars have continued to examine lynching in relation to rape because discursively it was the dominant rationale and justification for lynching. Despite the importance of the rape accusation to white apologists, defenders of lynching, and lynching scholarship, this analytical framework has outlived its utility. “Academic Lynching: Discourse and the Evasion of Political Economy and Resistance, 1979-2000” has three goals. First, the paper seeks to explore the extent to which lynching was a commonplace occurrence during the African American Nadir (1890-1917). Second, we intend to demonstrate that there is a radical disjuncture between lynching scholarship which has primarily focused on the rape accusation and actual lynching cases in which, historically, murder was the most frequently cited justification for lynching. We will demonstrate this disjuncture through an analysis of lynching scholarship between 1979 and 2000. Third, we argue that analyzing African American lynching in relation to the murder accusation has implications for how scholars understand African American resistance during the Nadir. In particular, there is a strong relationship between the murder accusation and African-American resistance to various forms of exploitation and oppression. We will demonstrate this relationship by analyzing 300 lynching cases compiled from African American newspapers located in the South, Midwest, Northeast, and border regions during the Nadir. In order to coherently organize the relationship between the murder accusation and African-American resistance, we developed a coding system for describing lynchings. We identified seven primary categories to describe each component of a lynching. These categories describe the lynch victim and resistance, the accuser and the accusation, the lynch party, the police actions, court proceedings, as well as, the community’s response to the lynching. Thus, this paper argues that by exclusively examining instances of African American lynching in relation to the accusation of rape, lynching scholars have inadvertently committed an “academic lynching” by implying that rape was the dominant justification if not the most important analytical angle upon which to understand lynching. Consequently, scholars’ preoccupation with rape has silenced and marginalized African American resistance to lynching.

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