Racial violence and religion in the New South

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan Evans
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
Racial Violence

Things Not Seen

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Vogel
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
Nonfiction Book ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Reagan Era ◽  
Trayvon Martin

This chapter reads Baldwin’s award-winning essay, “Atlanta: The Evidence of Things Not Seen” and elaborated final nonfiction book, The Evidence of Things Not Seen, as a corrective to sensationalist media accounts of the Atlanta child murders and simplistic gloss-overs of the New South. This chapter argues that while Evidence is perhaps Baldwin’s most neglected work (both upon publication and today), it offers one of the most penetrating examinations of the paradoxes, hypocrisies, and illusions of the Reagan era. It also presciently anticipates the “post-racial” violence that continues in the Obama era, from Trayvon Martin to Mike Brown, from Sandra Bland to the Charleston Nine.

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