Reverberations of Racial Violence: Critical Reflections on the History of the Border ed. by Sonia Hernández and John Morán González

2022 ◽  
Vol 125 (3) ◽  
pp. 326-327
Author(s):  
George T. Díaz
Keyword(s):  
Racial Violence ◽  
History Of ◽  
Critical Reflections

Archival Enthusiasm

2020 ◽  
pp. 68-102
Author(s):  
Lindsay V. Reckson
Keyword(s):  
Jim Crow ◽  
Political History ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Death Scene ◽  
Moving Body ◽  
Jim Crow Era ◽  
History Of ◽  
Religious Enthusiasm

This chapter examines the ecstatic performances haunting Stephen Crane’s 1895 narrative of the Civil War, The Red Badge of Courage. While much has been made of the way the novel strategically “forgets” the political history of the war, this chapter analyzes the novel’s complex overlay of religious enthusiasm and minstrel performance, exploring how Red Badge deploys these forms in order to grapple with the embodied semiotics of the Jim Crow era. Recovering traces of the midcentury minstrel figure “Dandy Jim of Caroline” in Jim Conklin’s exuberant death scene, the chapter argues that the narrative afterlife of such traces reveals the novel’s tendency to simultaneously erase and embed the excesses of war and postwar racial violence. Marking the historical resonance between minstrelsy and religious enthusiasm in their objectification of the moving body, Red Badge’s performances treat bodies as kinetic archives, whose stylized gestures offer stunning testimony to history’s traumatic returns. In this sense, the novel treats the ambivalence of performance as precisely the arena in which literature might grapple with history’s unaccountable remainders.

A Troubled Region and its Possible Culinary Fix

2016 ◽  
pp. 50-76
Author(s):  
Ashli Que Sinberry Stokes ◽  
Wendy Atkins-Sayre
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Family History ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
The South ◽  
Constitutive Function ◽  
Southern Identity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Food Movement

Chapter two surveys the rhetorical problem that the South faces, a complicated history marred by racial violence, segregation and discrimination, and economic inequality. Whether you are an African American Southerner with a family history haunted by racism and violence, a white Southerner with a family history of discriminating or tolerating discrimination, or a Mexican immigrant facing negative social outcry, feeling pride in the region can be troubling. Despite conflicting identities, Southerners continue to define themselves in relation to the region, and the reality-based and stereotypical images of the Southerner are part of the identity that Southerners must encounter. The Southern food movement serves a constitutive function by helping to craft a Southern identity based on diverse, humble, and hospitable roots that confronts a divided image of the South. This rhetorically constitutive work provides an opportunity for strengthening relations within the South, as well as helping repair the negative Southern image.

Seeing Race in Comics

Neo-Passing ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Glaser
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
Graphic Novel ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Police Shootings ◽  
History Of ◽  
Shed Light

This chapter discusses the power of the medium of comics to shed light on discussions of race, racism, and the act of passing. Glaser moves from a close reading of Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece’s recent neo-passing narrative, the graphic novel Incognegro (2008), to a wider look at the history of visual media in representing racial violence during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This chapter makes the argument that comics provide an arena for thinking both about how we see and interpret race and how visual depictions of racial violence—from photographs of lynchings to recordings of police shootings of unarmed African American men—force us to grapple with complex ethical questions.

‘Race’ and Resistance to Policing Before the ‘Windrush Years’: The Colonial Defence Committee and the Liverpool ‘Race Riots’ of 1948

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Fevre
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Black People ◽  
National Level ◽  
Black Population ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Race Riots ◽  
Black Resistance ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One

Abstract Between 31 July and 2 August 1948, Liverpool experienced three nights of racial violence on a scale not witnessed since the end of the First World War. Despite being initiated by white rioters, the so-called ‘race riots’ of 1948 were more significant in terms of the relationship between the police and Liverpool’s black population. Previous studies have sought to understand why and what happened during the riots; however, there has been little analysis of the aftermath. This article looks specifically at how black people responded to the ‘race riots’ in 1948 and argues that this episode led to a period of heightened political activity at a local and national level centred around the issue of policing. It focusses on the Colonial Defence Committee (CDC) that was formed immediately after the riots to organize the legal defence of individuals believed to have been wrongfully arrested. In its structure and organizational methods, the CDC represented a prototype of the defence committees that became a hallmark of black political opposition to policing during the 1970s and 1980s. Examining the aftermath of the Liverpool ‘race riots’ in 1948, thus, offers new perspectives on the historical development of black political resistance to policing in twentieth-century Britain. On the one hand, it reveals a longer history of struggle against racially discriminatory policing, which predates the ‘Windrush years’ migration of the 1950s and early 1960s. It also highlights the historical continuities in the way that black resistance to policing manifested itself over the twentieth century.

Cédric Andrieux: With Bel, Benjamin, and Brecht in Vancouver

2014 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 162-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Dickinson
Keyword(s):  
Merce Cunningham ◽  
History Of ◽  
Critical Reflections

A Vancouver performance of the fifth and final installment in Jérôme Bel’s series of talking dance portraits prompts some critical reflections on the choreographer’s Benjaminian excavation and Brechtian exposition of how the life of a Merce Cunningham dancer intersects with the larger institutionalized history of dance.

What use to make of a tyrant? Thomas More’s History of Richard III and the Limits of Early Tudor Historiography

Moreana ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 50 (Number 191- (1-2) ◽  
pp. 159-186
Author(s):  
Gabriela Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Literary Genre ◽  
Richard Iii ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ideological Stance ◽  
Critical Reflections

The literary genre and ideological stance of More’s History of King Richard III have long been subject to critical debate. While it seems obvious that his portrayal of the last Plantagenet as a full-blown tyrant is anything but historically ‘accurate’, the question remains controversial as to whether this intricately ironic text represents a (somewhat half-hearted) attempt at legitimising the ruling Tudor dynasty’s claim to authority, an implicit rejection of the same, or a more general humanist moral exemplum. Placing More’s Richard within the historiographical practice of its time and reading it alongside his own critical reflections on historiographical method in the debate with Germanus Brixius, this article attempts to access the problem of generic purpose from a meta-literary perspective, reading the text as a self-conscious parodic comment on some of the major strands of early Tudor historiography and as an implicit challenge to the humanists’ confidence in language as a valuable basis for the construction of a commonwealth.

scholarly journals Martial politics, MOVE and the racial violence of policing

Politics ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 026339572110427
Author(s):  
Katharine Hall
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
Domestic Spaces ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Intimate Relation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Racialized Violence ◽  
The City

Recent scholarship on war and policing has begun to theorize the two in more intimate relation with each other, especially through connections to racialized violence and governance. Drawing on this body of work, and the concept of martial politics specifically, I examine how logics of war operate within domestic spaces and reproduce racialized conceptualizations of threat. I focus on a confrontation between the MOVE organization and the city of Philadelphia in 1985, which led to police firing 10,000 rounds of ammunition into a house where MOVE members and their children were living, and to the extensive use of military-grade explosives, culminating in the police dropping a bomb from a helicopter onto the house. The bomb ignited a fire that killed six adult MOVE members and five children, and destroyed 61 houses. I examine the decision of the city to bomb MOVE and consider the role that conceptions of war and threat played in shaping the event. This case shows not just the migration of military techniques into domestic spheres (and a long history of this in the United States), but more significantly, it reveals how violence and war-making have always been a foundation of liberal governance.

Studying Racial Violence in America

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward González-Tennant
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Population Density ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
Detailed History ◽  
Multidisciplinary Study ◽  
Rural Settings ◽  
Single Moment ◽  
History Of ◽  
Geospatial Mapping

The primary goal of The Rosewood Massacre is to shed a light on the deep temporal connections between past racial violence and modern social inequality. González-Tennant’s approach involves a multidisciplinary study of racial violence and a new investigation of the destruction of Rosewood, Florida. This is not a study of a single moment or even the destruction of a single community, which was not truly destroyed, but rather displaced. Instead, it is a search for answers to the question of how culture, society, and violence intersect across time and space. González-Tennant’s study of Rosewood draws on additional datasets to construct an interpretive framework that begins with a case study—a microhistorical study—and builds toward a theory offering a fuller explanation of how ordinary citizens turned on their neighbors in terrifying ways. While previous studies of Rosewood accurately record approximate numbers of African Americans living in the area prior to the riot and present a broad review of the town’s development, they do not construct a detailed history of the town’s development through time. Collecting such information is difficult in rural settings. No maps or city directories exist for Rosewood due to its relatively remote location and low population density. We require new methods to explore the development of such rural contexts. In Rosewood, the use of geospatial mapping to analyze and interpret hundreds of property deeds demonstrates the development of a particular pattern of African American homeownership, and the role it played in contributing to the town’s destruction.

Resistance to rebellion

2019 ◽  
pp. 16-48
Author(s):  
Simon Peplow
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
World War ◽  
Minority Ethnic Groups ◽  
Racial Issues ◽  
History Of ◽  
British State ◽  
Second World ◽  
Minority Ethnic ◽  
General Criticism

This chapter addresses the history of black and minority ethnic people in Britain following increased colonial migration after the Second World War, and subsequent relationship with an often-hostile society, experiencing widespread discrimination, racial violence, and a political consensus to depoliticise and marginalise racial issues. It examines the development of activism, militancy, and black mobilisation, considering the build-up of antipathy towards the police due to their policies, actions, and general criticism, illustrating the gradual building of discontent towards a British state offering minority ethnic groups little support. The chapter’s title ‘Resistance to rebellion’, inspired by Ambalavaner Sivanandan, itself provides a basic overview of the change demonstrated through these years; discussion, in effect, acts as a ‘roadmap to 1980–1’.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Alexander D. Barder
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
Integral Component ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
The Relationship

In this introduction I wish to develop the theoretical lens that informs the historical story that makes up the following chapters. In particular, I want to explore why violence becomes an integral component of the processes of racialization that constituted the global as a specific racialized imaginary and why such racial violence becomes its ubiquitous feature over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The history of what I call the global racial imaginary and its racial violence was not necessarily coterminous with the history of the state and its formation; it was never entirely institutionalized within the proto-state apparatuses that were congealing themselves on the frontiers of European empires. What becomes crucial for understanding the relationship between racial violence and the racial imaginary is the sense that the latter is in crisis.

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