Racial Terrorism
A Rhetorical Investigation of Lynching
Seiten
2020
University Press of Mississippi (Verlag)
978-1-4968-3175-0 (ISBN)
University Press of Mississippi (Verlag)
978-1-4968-3175-0 (ISBN)
In 2018, the US Senate unanimously passed the nation's first antilynching act. For the first time in US history, legislators classified lynching as a federal hate crime. This book focuses on several key social agents and organisations that played vital roles in the public and legal consciousness raising that finally led to the passage of the act.
In December 2018, the United States Senate unanimously passed the nation's first antilynching act, the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act. For the first time in US history, legislators, representing the American people, classified lynching as a federal hate crime.
While lynching histories and memories have received attention among communication scholars and some interdisciplinary studies of traditional civil rights memorials exist, contemporary studies often fail to examine the politicized nature of the spaces. This volume represents the first investigation of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum, both of which strategically make clear the various links between America's history of racial terror and contemporary mass incarceration conditions, the mistreatment of juveniles, and capital punishment.
Racial Terrorism: A Rhetorical Investigation of Lynching focuses on several key social agents and organizations that played vital roles in the public and legal consciousness raising that finally led to the passage of the act. Marouf A. Hasian Jr. and Nicholas S. Paliewicz argue that the advocacy of attorney Bryan Stevenson, the work of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), and the efforts of curators at Montgomery's new Legacy Museum all contributed to the formation of a rhetorical culture that set the stage at last for this hallmark lynching legislation. The authors examine how the EJI uses spaces of remembrance to confront audiences with race-conscious messages and measure to what extent those messages are successful.
In December 2018, the United States Senate unanimously passed the nation's first antilynching act, the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act. For the first time in US history, legislators, representing the American people, classified lynching as a federal hate crime.
While lynching histories and memories have received attention among communication scholars and some interdisciplinary studies of traditional civil rights memorials exist, contemporary studies often fail to examine the politicized nature of the spaces. This volume represents the first investigation of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum, both of which strategically make clear the various links between America's history of racial terror and contemporary mass incarceration conditions, the mistreatment of juveniles, and capital punishment.
Racial Terrorism: A Rhetorical Investigation of Lynching focuses on several key social agents and organizations that played vital roles in the public and legal consciousness raising that finally led to the passage of the act. Marouf A. Hasian Jr. and Nicholas S. Paliewicz argue that the advocacy of attorney Bryan Stevenson, the work of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), and the efforts of curators at Montgomery's new Legacy Museum all contributed to the formation of a rhetorical culture that set the stage at last for this hallmark lynching legislation. The authors examine how the EJI uses spaces of remembrance to confront audiences with race-conscious messages and measure to what extent those messages are successful.
Marouf A. Hasian Jr. is distinguished professor of communication at the University of Utah. He is author of Restorative Justice, Humanitarian Rhetorics, and Public Memories of Colonial Camp Cultures. Nicholas S. Paliewicz is assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Louisville. His work has appeared in such publications as Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, Southern Communication Journal, and Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture.
Erscheinungsdatum | 23.11.2020 |
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Reihe/Serie | Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series |
Zusatzinfo | 19 black & white illustrations |
Verlagsort | Jackson |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 425 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4968-3175-6 / 1496831756 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4968-3175-0 / 9781496831750 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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