...Gustavus Stadler This essay examines 1890s commercial audio recordings—none of which is known to exist today—that reenacted lynchings of African Americans,in particular, the mass spectacle lynching of Henry Smith of Paris, Texas, in 1893. Despite rumors that the recordings were made live, they were...

... States. In these very same years, Ida B. Wells was leading an urgent civil rights movement to end the public, ritualized murder of Blacks by White lynch mobs. By the time members of the NAACP were courting the US military in 1917, the state murder of Black people had proceeded as a strident reprimand...

..., or at least a sympathetic, exem- plary part for the whole of society. Each construction, nevertheless, has tended to disregard the corporal contingencies of US racialized chattel slavery and lynching, expectations of women’s bodies, queer embodi...

... by this issue is extraordinarily promiscuous. Sources include scientific experiments with the deaf; newspaper accounts of recordings of lynchings; CDs by Anglo – Sri Lankan dance music/hip-hop sensation M.I.A.; street sounds from a Puerto Rican neighborhood in 1950s Manhattan; a school...

... of lynching. The transformation of the black penis into a magic 184 Hiram Perez ST84-85-11_Perez.indd 184 10/19/05 2:39:00 PM object requires that the racial-sexual violence become naturalized...

..., Emmett Till, lynching photos. Jackie Goldsby. Visuality as zone of struggle. Can we decolonize the image? But isn’t it a force of colonization? And of decolonization? Visualizations of knowledge — yes, but are these still “knowledge” then? Strictly speaking, I mean. Is an image ever knowledge...

... to spur people to action, or does it function as a lynching postcard? Despite a large shift in register, a similar sentiment bubbles up in lefty meme culture. Facebook and Instagram users who, judging from the sensibility of “Weird Facebook,” as New York Magazine describes it, most likely would have...

... and black public awareness of, and opposition to, violent methods of oppression, particularly lynching, was at a sustained pitch (Bryant 1997, 72). Griggs was a young Baptist minister deeply involved in civil rights work and utterly opposed...

..., Morgan Guarantee Trust, Bankers Trust, Chase Manhattan, Manufacturers Hanover Trust, Chemical Bank, and Merrill Lynch (Newfield and DuBrul 1981, 38).7 These institutions were able to act in concert, multiplying their power...

..., no matter how meager, while drastically reduc- ing my use of the voluminous white voices available in the archives. For structure, I borrowed a strategy I had tried in my first book,White Women, Black Men, in the chapter on lynching. There, instead...

... mode of production had become for all intents and purposes impossible. 11 Taking as their very object the phenomenon that elicited from Kevin Lynch the planning notion of cognitive mapping in his Image of the City (the text later transcoded by Jameson), namely, the US postwar sprawl, those...

... origins in the South, and farther, to Africa. Along with white devils and scenes of rape, Baldwin sees red earth drenched in blood. In “A Letter from the South,” Baldwin describes approaching “the rustred earth of Georgia” in an airplane, envisioning a scene of lynching: “I could not suppress the thought...

... their “purer” morality in comparison to the Katunayake FTZ worker. According to Caitrin Lynch, village factory officials preferred rural workers to the workers in urban FTZs because the latter workers abused their freedom, were spoiled...

..., lynching, and the terrorism of the Ku Klux Klan. Indeed, we need an expanded and more precise definition of terror- ism, one that also includes state terrorism and vigilante terrorism. The idea of an only-now-lost innocence is rooted in deafness not only to the dynam- ics of U.S. history but also...

... . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2007 . Collins Winfield . The Truth about Lynching and the Negro in the South . New York : Neale , 1918 . Cope Edward Drinker . “ Ethical Evolution .” Open Court 3 , no. 82 ( 1889 ): 1523 – 25 . Cope Edward Drinker . “ Mrs...

.... 47. [Sir Thomas Lynch], “An Accurate Description of the Cacao-­Tree,” Philo- sophical Transactions 8 (1673): 6007–9. The description is attributed to Lynch, who acted as Jamaica’s governor three times between the 1660s and 1680s. On historia...

... of the images and descriptions of violence at Abu Ghraib.40 These critics often relate the publicization of U.S. torture to the dual histories of lynching postcards, which specularized community endorsement of racial terror, and orientalism, which has produced Muslim, Arab, and South Asian men...

...-Shabaab.” 76. Macharia, “War as Viagla.” 77. Ngirachu, “Kenya: Troops Off to War.” 78. Lutz, “Military Normal.” 79. Migue and Oloch, Operation Linda Nchi . 80. Deacon and Lynch, “Allowing Satan In?” 81. The term black knight is a twist on the title...

... to progressives and cultural critics. The degree of anti-lynching one’s surprise can be used as a marker of how deeply anticommunist bias legislation, the has burrowed into our associations and shaped our “knowledge...

... Culture . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press . Žižek Slavoj . 2000 . The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch’s Lost Highway . Seattle : University of Washington Press . Žižek Slavoj . 2001 . The Fright of Real Tears: Krzysztof Kieślowski between Theory and Post-theory . London...