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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 163–183.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Zoe Spencer; Olivia N. Perlow Abstract This work develops and conceptualizes a new theory, Post Traumatic Slave Master Syndrome, that is utilized to critically correlate historic patterns of lynching Black women to contemporary violent state (actor) responses to Black women’s resistance...
View articletitled, Sassy Mouths, Unfettered Spirits, and the Neo-<span class="search-highlight">Lynching</span> of Korryn Gaines and Sandra Bland: Conceptualizing Post Traumatic Slave Master Syndrome and the Familiar “Policing” of Black Women’s Resistance in Twenty-First-Century America
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 300–305.
Published: 01 December 2016
... Pasadena on August 29 th 2015. In a move designed to attack the Black Lives Matter Movement and to disrupt their work in Pasadena, Jasmine was arrested and charged with "felony lynching” a California law against taking a person out of police custody which carries a sentence of up to 4 years in prison...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 69–86.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Paula J. Giddings Abstract In 1930, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was surprised and disappointed to find that, despite her pioneering role as an anti-lynching activist and a founder of the NAACP, her name was not included in a contemporary Black history text by Carter G. Woodson, the “Father of Negro...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 1–17.
Published: 01 March 2001
... autobiography, her place in history was hardly assured. In addition to leading the nation's first anti-lynching campaign, Wells-Barnett co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and organized a black settlement house in Chicago, the Negro Fellowship League. She...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 1–13.
Published: 01 April 2020
... the gamut from lynching to sexual violence to mob-led massacres of entire Black communities. We open this issue, therefore, with Rachel Marie-Crane Williams’s “Elegy for Mary Turner.” This epic poem is part of a larger performance art piece that Williams debuted online on October 31, 2016, and performed...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 436–454.
Published: 01 October 2022
... a photograph depicting the lynching of Jesse Washington, an African American teen, in May 1916 in Waco, Texas. This particular photograph shows a group of who appear to be mostly White men gleefully looking at Washington’s charred body. The youngest-looking spectator’s smile negatively haunted me...
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 56–57.
Published: 01 September 2005
... not begged God a familiar have you not sent words dancing sung songs spontaneous then forgot that sister's hands begging fire not for your own salvation not for songs spontaneous used look the moon look look here I. Mary Turner of Brooks County, Georgia, was eight months pregnant when she was lynched...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 14–31.
Published: 01 April 2020
.... It could have been one or three or ten Average height, black, male Unnamed, named, known, unknown Lynched Human torch Human target Swinging like a smoked ham in a tree Towed behind a car Cut Beaten Strangled Disappeared Dismembered Raped Known, unknown, unnamed Drowning, dragging...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 205–206.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Zoe Spencer Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 Black women resistance lynching police brutality Black Lives Matter Say Her Name If I were a man They’d be hashtagging my name and calling me a martyr Celebrating my resistance as the ultimate stand Against State power I’d...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 512–537.
Published: 01 October 2022
... in her backyard in Ferguson, Missouri. While his death was later ruled a suicide, Mckinnies and others maintain that her son was lynched. Six years earlier, in Detroit, Adaisha Miller, McNair’s twenty-four-year-old daughter, was killed by an off-duty officer while attending a fish fry, on a day just shy...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 94–151.
Published: 01 April 2019
.... The Precious Law’: Black Women Radicals and the Fight to End Legal Lynching, 1949–1955 .” In Crime and Punishment: Perspectives from the Humanities; Studies in Law, Politics, and Society 37 , edited by Sarat Austin . Oxford : Elsevier . Gore Dayo F. 2015 . “ A Black Woman Speaks: Beah...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 204–232.
Published: 01 September 2015
... 2, folder 52. . ,978b. "The Contemporary Black Women." Chisholm Papers, box t, folder 39. .1984a. "The Viability of Black Women in Politics." Chisholm Papers, box 1, folder 29. 1984b. "The Political Mind: We Will Rise to the Occasion." Spelman Messenger IOL I. . 2000. Interview with Shola Lynch...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 151–173.
Published: 01 April 2021
.... In antiracist discourses, however, in which sexuality is still central, the lynching of Blacks has embodied the trope. The visual spectacle of lynching to maintain control over the Black population had a public dimension, whereas the rape of Black women remained a private suffering. The inability of Black men...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 286–294.
Published: 01 March 2018
..., and power on behalf of African American communities. Collective Identity Collectivism has long been the route to freedom for persons of African ancestry, as can be seen in the abolitionist, anti-lynching, voting rights, and Black Power movements, among others (Hill Collins 1990; Gilkes 2001). The Black...
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in Making Democracy Real: African American Women, Birth Control, and Social Justice, 1910–1960
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Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 3. Journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931) led the campaign against lynching. She exposed the stereotype of black men as rapists to be a racist myth that concealed whites’ fears of free blacks’ economic and political success, denied the reality of consensual relationships between white
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 153–155.
Published: 01 September 2014
... to justify lynching. The murders of young black men like Trayvon Martin and Jordan Davis, and the improper presumption of their criminality by their attackers, recalls and perpetuates this Jong history and understandably animates black politics. But because so much of black politics has been focused...
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in Making Democracy Real: African American Women, Birth Control, and Social Justice, 1910–1960
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Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 41. Group at YWCA Student Conference, Waveland, Mississippi, 1931. Beginning in the early twentieth century, the YWCA took up “colored work,” working initially through segregated associations. In the 1930s the organization took positions against lynching and the poll tax as well
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): v–ix.
Published: 01 September 2005
..., the nostalgia of home made unreturnable, the distinctively American form of terrorism called lynching-a trope for not only singular violence but community lessons to be learned-and the memories that attempt to reconstitute connections to indigenous earth and cultures in a world that has been scattered...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 230–237.
Published: 01 March 2018
... know how to elevate use our bodies to tell a story of middle passage. of survival of lynchings you have always loved our bodies under your control. don't you touch me. don't you take me down. murderers. don't you touch my body. don't touch my music. don't touch my patience. don't touch my car door...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 51–81.
Published: 01 September 2018
... in A Mirror: A Soul (1969), as well as in Stephen Henderson’s critical anthology Understanding the New Black Poetry ( 1973 ). 14 There is a haunting similarity between the imagery of Webster Fabio’s poem and that of Richard Wright’s “Between the World and Me,” about a lynching. 15 Her thesis...
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