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During its heyday, a lynching was a very public act. Yet curiously, until quite recently this horrific subject had largely eluded scholarly attention. During the late 1970s and 1980s, historians belatedly began to explore lynching. While the scholarship of the 1980s placed lynching on the discipline’s register; nevertheless, this work was also problematic in several ways. First, the lived experiences of the lynch victim was rarely central to these narratives. Second, many of this generation of lynching historians doubted African Americans’ capacity to resist racial violence. The propensity to disregard or diminish African American resistance was challenged by a new generation of historians that emerged in the 1990s. Still, the African American community has been largely ignored in these studies. Rather, historians have emphasized the impact of lynchings on the white community. This historical emphasis has provided many insights into the motivations, composition, and organization of lynch mobs; nevertheless, because historians have largely ignored the African American community, we have learned very little about the institutional structures and social networks through which African Americans organized community and, subsequently, resistance to lynching and other forms of racial violence. In contrast to the bulk of previous research on African American lynching, this paper provides an assessment that includes a systematic examination of the extent, variety, and complexity of African American responses to lynching from1877 to 1930. Also, rather than focusing on Southern lynching (as is commonplace within lynching historiography), my research is inclusive of African American lynching in the West, Midwest, Southwest, and Northeast. Proceeding from a broader geographic perspective provides a basis to revise conventional approaches within lynching historiography that have tended to ignore and marginalize African Americans’ reactions to lynching. Therefore, the overarching goal of this project is to methodologically document and illustrate the vibrancy and complexity of African American agency and resistance to lynching between 1877 and 1930. Through a quantitative and qualitative analysis of primary lynching cases drawn from African American newspapers and other supporting primary documents, my aim is to demonstrate that African American lynch victims and African American communities routinely resisted lynching through a continuum of resistance strategies. A corollary objective of this project concerns exploration of the disjuncture between the percent of lynchings involving the rape allegation and the percentage of lynching historical scholarship that focuses on rape, providing an example of the extent to which the African American fight for economic is suppressed by structural violence.. |
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Name: Association for the Study of African American Life and History
URL: http://www.asalh.org
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MLA Citation:
| Cha-Jua, Sundiata. "Lynching: Discourse, Murder, and the Evasion of Political Economy and Resistance , 1877-1917" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Atlanta Hilton, Charlotte, NC, <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p208592_index.html> |
APA Citation:
| Cha-Jua, S. "Lynching: Discourse, Murder, and the Evasion of Political Economy and Resistance , 1877-1917" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Atlanta Hilton, Charlotte, NC <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p208592_index.html |
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Abstract: During its heyday, a lynching was a very public act. Yet curiously, until quite recently this horrific subject had largely eluded scholarly attention. During the late 1970s and 1980s, historians belatedly began to explore lynching. While the scholarship of the 1980s placed lynching on the discipline’s register; nevertheless, this work was also problematic in several ways. First, the lived experiences of the lynch victim was rarely central to these narratives. Second, many of this generation of lynching historians doubted African Americans’ capacity to resist racial violence. The propensity to disregard or diminish African American resistance was challenged by a new generation of historians that emerged in the 1990s. Still, the African American community has been largely ignored in these studies. Rather, historians have emphasized the impact of lynchings on the white community. This historical emphasis has provided many insights into the motivations, composition, and organization of lynch mobs; nevertheless, because historians have largely ignored the African American community, we have learned very little about the institutional structures and social networks through which African Americans organized community and, subsequently, resistance to lynching and other forms of racial violence. In contrast to the bulk of previous research on African American lynching, this paper provides an assessment that includes a systematic examination of the extent, variety, and complexity of African American responses to lynching from1877 to 1930. Also, rather than focusing on Southern lynching (as is commonplace within lynching historiography), my research is inclusive of African American lynching in the West, Midwest, Southwest, and Northeast. Proceeding from a broader geographic perspective provides a basis to revise conventional approaches within lynching historiography that have tended to ignore and marginalize African Americans’ reactions to lynching. Therefore, the overarching goal of this project is to methodologically document and illustrate the vibrancy and complexity of African American agency and resistance to lynching between 1877 and 1930. Through a quantitative and qualitative analysis of primary lynching cases drawn from African American newspapers and other supporting primary documents, my aim is to demonstrate that African American lynch victims and African American communities routinely resisted lynching through a continuum of resistance strategies. A corollary objective of this project concerns exploration of the disjuncture between the percent of lynchings involving the rape allegation and the percentage of lynching historical scholarship that focuses on rape, providing an example of the extent to which the African American fight for economic is suppressed by structural violence.. |
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